WORKING CLASSES,
GLOBAL REALITIES
Socialist Register 2001
edited by
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys
with Greg Albo and David Coates
“The Socialist
Register has been the intellectual lodestar for the international left
since 1965.” —
MIKE DAVIS
SOCIALIST REGISTER 2001
examines the challenges faced by workers and the labor movement under global
capitalism in the new century. This collection of twenty timely and original
essays lay the groundwork for a much-needed revival of class analysis. A broad
range of working-class issues are addressed including knowledge work and the
“cybertariat” in the new economy, feminism and unions, migrant labor,
peasant struggles, internationalism, and the impact of unstable, casual, and
contingent employment. Other essays examine critically important regional
experiences in India, Iran, Russia, Brazil, Southern Africa, and East Asia, as
well as Europe and North America. Contributors to this volume reveal new and
exciting possibilities for change that transcend the limits of old forms of
class organization and politics.
Contributors & Contents
Preface
Ursula Huws
The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work
in a Real World
Henry Bernstein
“The Peasantry” in Global Capitalism:
Who, Where and Why?
Beverly J. Silver and
Giovanni Arrighi
Workers North and South
Andrew Ross
No-Collar Labor in America’s “New
Economy”
Barbara Harriss-White
& Nandini Gooptu
Mapping India’s World of Unorganized
Labor
Patrick Bond, Darlene
Miller & Greg Ruiters
The Southern African Working Class:
Production, Reproduction and Politics
Steve Jefferys
Western European Trade Unionism at
2000
David Mandel
“Why Is There No Revolt?” The Russian
Working-Class and Labor Movement
Haideh Moghissi &
Saeed Rahnema
The Working Class and the Islamic State in
Iran
Huw Beynon &
José Ramalho
Democracy and the Organization of Class Struggle
in Brazil
Gerard Greenfield
Organizing, Protest and Working-Class
Self-Activity: Reflections on East Asia
Rohini Hensman
Organizing Against the Odds: Women in India’s
Informal Sector
Eric Mann
“A Race Struggle, A Class Struggle, A
Women’s Struggle
All at Once”: Organizing on the Buses of L.A.
Justin Paulson
Peasant Struggles and International Solidarity:
The Case of Chiapas
Judith Adler Hellman
Virtual Chiapas: A Reply to Paulson
Peter Kwong
The Politics of Labor Migration: Chinese Workers
in New York
Brigitte Young
The “Mistress” and the “Maid” in
the Globalized Economy
Rosemary Warskett
Feminism’s Challenge to Unions in the North:
Possibilities and Contradictions
Sam Gindin
Turning Points and Starting Points: Brenner,
Left Turbulence and Class Politics
Leo Panitch
Reflections on Strategy for Labor
About the Editors
LEO PANITCH is professor of
political science at York University in Toronto.
COLIN LEYS was for many years
professor of political science at Queen's University in Canada.
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