Where are the Unions?: workers and social movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe

Part one.Labor movements, society and the state.The Egyptian workers' movement: problems of organization and politics /Anne AlexanderandMostafa Bassiouny /From the grassroots to the presidential palace: Evo Morales and the coca growers' union in Bolivia /Thomas Grisaffi /The labour union movement and 'alternative' culture in Tunisia: the long view of a close relationship /Mohamed-Salah Omri.

Part I: Labour movements, society and the state1. The Egyptian workers' movement: problems of organisation and politics - Anne Alexander and Mostafa Bassiouny. - 2. From the grassroots to the presidential palace: Evo Morales and the coca growers' union in Bolivia - Thomas Grisaffi. - 3. The labour union movement and 'alternative' culture in Tunisia: the long view of a close relationship - Mohamed-Salah Omri. - Part II: Identity and precarity*4. Migrants' struggles? Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism and labour precarity through migration politics in Italy - Irene Peano. - 5. The Spanish crisis: from complacency to unrest, from unrest to mobilisation - Salvador Marti i Puig and Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi. - 6. What are the possible strategies for the emergence of a democratic and revolutionary labour movement in Lebanon? - Walid Daou. - 7. 'To struggle is also to teach': how can teachers and teaching unions further the global fight for another world? - Mary Compton. - Part III: Rank and file challenges to traditional unionism. - 8. 'Ungrievable' labour and 'unruly' politics: NGOS, workers' rights, and the 2013-2014 protests in Brazil - Lucy McMahon. - 9. The experience of grassroots syndicalism in Greece: workplace restructuring and the role of traditional trade unions in the tertiary sector - Aris Anagnostopoulos and Angelos Evangelinidis. - 10. Dilemmas of trade unionism and the movement of the unemployed under neoliberal and progressive regimes in Argentina - Virginia Manzano. - 11. From invisible to invincible: the story of the 3 Cosas Campaign - Jason Moyer-Lee and Henry Chango Lopez. - Afterword: bringing manifestos back in? - Peter Waterman