Live Working or Die Fighting
How The Working Class Went Global
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2008
Summary
An extraordinary history of the working class and its globalisation that takes Victorian factories, trade unions, fascism and today’s migrant labourers, among many other subjects, in its epic sweep.
Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. In Live Working or Die Fighting, Paul Mason tells the story of this new working class alongside the epic history of the global labour movement, from its fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099492887 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099492881 |
| Author: | Paul Mason |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Vividly accessible… required reading for the Seattle brigade
Vividly accessible… required reading for the Seattle brigade * Guardian *
Mason, using an impressive range of primary sources, recounts nine of the great stories of working-class revolts * Irish Times *
This book tells stories of our past that are indispensable to understanding the present. it is a good answer to all who ask where the working class has gone. Brilliant – Ken Loach
‘Don’t die stupid. If you haven’t read Mason’s book, you know nothing about how this planet works… breathtaking, fascinating, perceptive… Damn, I wish I’d written this book – Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller Armed Madhouse
This is micro-historical writing at its best – Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination
Mason brings together a wealth of inspiring stories of workers’ struggles of the past with accounts of workers’ fights today * Socialist Review *
About The Author
Paul Mason
Paul Mason was born in 1960 in Leigh, Greater Manchester. He is BBC Newsnight’s business and industry correspondent. He won the 2003 Wincott Award for business journalism and was named Workworld Broadcast Journalist of the Year in 2004. He lives in London.
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