Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India

Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression

 

*** NOTE – change of time/venue – this is now part of the University of Birmingham UCU branch programme of teach-outs that are scheduled to run in support of the current round of strikes – details of the strike here *****

Dr Jörg Nowak (ERC Postdoctoral Researcher: Labour Politics and the EU’s New Economic Governance, University College Dublin)

NEW TIME/PLACE:
Monday 2 March

3.30pm – 4.30pm
Upstairs of the Bristol Pear (Bristol Road)

Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression

Jörg Nowak (University College Dublin)

Join us to hear Jörg Nowak introduce his new book – Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India: Popular Mobilisation in the Long Depression

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014. Based on four case studies, the author traces the alliances and relations that strikers developed during their mobilisations with other popular actors such as students, indigenous peoples, and people displaced by dam projects.

 

The study locates the mass strikes in Brazil’s construction industry and India’s automobile industry in a global conjuncture of protest movements, and develops a new, non-eurocentric theory of strikes that can take account of the manifold ways in which labour unrest is embedded in local communities and grassroots networks.

 

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