Rising from the ashes? : labor in the age of global capitalism / edited by Ellen Meiksens Wood, Peter Meiksins, and Michael Yates.

Includes references at the end of each essay.

Includes index.

Table of contents includes preface, but there is no preface in the book.

Preface / Ellen Meiksins Wood, Peter Meiksins, and Michael Yates

1. Labor and class in a changing world : Labor, class, and state in global capitalism / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- Talking about work / Doug Henwood -- Same as it ever was? The structure of the working class / Peter Meiksins -- On gender and class in U.S. labor history / Johanna Brenner.

2. The American scene: Prospects and problems : American labor: A movement again? / Kim Moody -- Organizing the unorganized: Will promises become practices? / Fernando Gapasin and Michael Yates -- Race and labor organization in the United States / Michael Goldfield -- Class, community, and empire: Toward an anti-imperialist strategy for labor / Eric Mann -- Labor education in the maelstrom of class struggle / Bill Fletcher, Jr.

3. A world to win? : Worker insurgency, rural revolt, and the crisis of the Mexican regime / Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui -- Globalization on trial: Crisis and class struggle in east Asia / David McNally -- Communists and workers in ex-communist Europe / Peter Gowan -- European industrial relations: Impasse or model? / Gregory Albo and Chris Roberts -- The ICFTU and the politics of compromise / Gerard Greenfield -- Notes on labor at the end of the century: Starting over? / Sam Gindin.

Contributors -- Index.

"New questions have jumped to the forefront for labor movements all over the world. Can workers regain the initiative against the tidal wave of corporate downsizings and government cutbacks? Can unions revive their ranks and reignite the public imagination? Is labor rising from the ashes? Rising from the Ashes? sets these crucial questions in global context, connecting and contrasting new developments in the United States to recent trends abroad - from Mexico to Asia, and from Canada to Eastern Europe." -- From the back cover.