Friends, Monthly Review Press has just published a new book about labor. It is titled, "Rising from the Ashes: Labor in the Age of ‘Global' Capitalism." It is edited by Ellen Meiksins Wood, Peter Meiksins, and Michael Yates. It contains a good collection of essays by scholars and activists from around the world. It differs from similar books about labor in that it the essays deal with labor movements worldwide rather than just in the United States. Here are the essay titles and authors: Labor, Class, and State in Global Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood Talking About Work by Doug Henwood Same as it Ever Was?: The Structure of the Working Class by Peter Meiksins On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History by Johanna Brenner American Labor: A Movement Again? By Kim Moody Organizing the Unorganized: Will Promises become Practices? by Fernando Gapasin and Michael Yates Race and Labor Organization in the United States by Michael Goldfield Class, Community, and Empire: Toward an Anti-Imperialist Strategy for Labor by Eric Mann Labor Education in the Maelstrom of Class Struggle by Bill Fletcher, Jr. Worker Insurgency, Rural Revolt, and the Crisis of the Mexican Regime by Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui Globalization on Trial: Crisis and Class Struggle in East Asia by David McNally Communists and Workers in Ex-Communist Europe by Peter Gowan European Industrial Relations: Impasse or Model by Gregory Albo and Chris Roberts The ICFTU and the Politics of Compromise by Gerard Greenfield Notes on Labor at the End of the Century: Starting Over? By Sam Gindin You can order the book from Monthly Review at 1-800-670-9499 or at bookstores or through amazon.com If you want to do a review of it, call MR and speak to Rene Pendergrass. Pleas forward this to anyone (or any list) you think might be interested. Michael Yates
