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
formation in the factories of the 1800s through its near destruction by
fascism in the 1930s and up to today's anti-globalisation movement.
Blending exhilarating historical narrative with reportage from today's
front line, he links the lives of 19th-century factory girls with the
lives of teenagers in a giant Chinese mobile phone factory; he tells the
story of how mass trade unions were born in London's Docklands - and
how they're being reinvented by the migrant cleaners in skyscrapers that
stand on the very same spot.
It is a story of urban slums,
self-help co-operatives, choirs and brass bands, free love and
self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the
developing industrial economies of the world it is still with us. Live
Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance,
idealism and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two
hundred years ago.
It is a unique and inspirational book.
Live Working or Die Fighting - Paul Mason
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