Emerging workers' movements

http://isj.org.uk/emerging-workers-movements/
Date Written:  2016-04-04
Publisher:  International Socialism
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19314

Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced (or at least accepted) across the political spectrum. These claims include the arguments that the working class is increasingly a thing of the past, both structurally (as industry gives way to services and information) and politically (as traditional left parties embrace varieties of neoliberalism); that globalisation is reducing world poverty and that as a result the global middle class is expanding rapidly; and, seemingly logically, that radical politics are a thing of the past.