The Labour Movement in the Global South

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Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Sri Lanka, the Global South and Worker Struggles 2. History of Unions in Sri Lanka: The Colonial State and Political Unionism 3. The Nurses and a Monk: Limits of Economic Unionism 4. Plantation Workers and Anti-Tamil Violence: Struggles of Political Unionism 5. Free Trade Zone Workers and Allianced: Building a Movement Unionism 6. Conclusion: Renewing Movement Politics and Global Labour Solidarity