Waterman, Peter and Mattoni, Alice and Humphrys, Elizabeth and Cox, Laurence and Margarida Esteves, Ana (2012) For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 4 (2). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2009-2431

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This editorial for a special issue of Interface discusses the events at the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana, South Africa as symbolic of the changing role of trade unions. While official trade unions in particular have been dramatically transformed through neoliberalisation, new labour movements can be found both at the grassroots among rank-and-file workers and at the margins, among the precarious, the unemployed and informal workers. The editorial also discusses articles in the special issue and concludes with a discussion of the rebirth of labour as part of a wider movement for global justice and solidarity

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	global emancipation of labour; new movements; struggles around work; workers and precarity;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	4007
Depositing User:	Dr. Laurence Cox
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2012 14:23
Journal or Publication Title:	Interface: a journal for and about social movements
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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