Precarious migrants : gender, race and the social reproduction of a global working class / Susan Ferguson, David McNally -- The language of class in China / Lin Chun -- India's landmark election / Achin Vanaik -- Bringing class back in : informality in Bangalore / Supriya RoyChowdhury -- NUMSA, the working class and socialist politics in South Africa / Sam Ashman, Nicolas Pons-Vignon -- From Gezi resistance to Soma massacre : capital accumulation and class struggle in Turkey / Fuat Ercan, Şebnem Oğuz -- The Egyptian workers' movement before and after the 2011 popular uprising / Joel Beinin, Marie Duboc -- Transnational solidarity? The European working class in the eurozone crisis / Andreas Bieler, Roland Erne -- The new morphology of the working class in contemporary Brazil / Ricardo Antunes -- Class transformations in Chile's capitalist revolution / Timothy David Clark -- The Olympic ruling class / George Wright -- The middle class in Hollywood : anxieties of the American dream / John Mccullough -- What has become of the professional managerial class? / Randy Martin -- Class theory and class politics today / Hugo Radice -- The politics of US labour : paralysis and possibilities / Kim Moody, Charles Post -- Forging new class solidarities : organizing hospital workers / Jane McAlevey -- New working-class organization and the social movement left / Steve Williams, Rishi Awatramani -- The crisis of labour and the left in the United States / Mark Dudzic, Adolph Reed Jr. For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964, SR continues their commitment to independent and thought-provoking analysis, free of dogma or sectarian positions. Transforming Classes is a compendium of socialist thought today and a clarifying account of class struggle in the early twenty-first-century, from China to the United States. How is the class being transformed in the Global South? How are working people organising in the workplace and in the community? What are the forces shaping and reshaping workers' lives? Four essays focus on change amongst American workers. A collection of writings and speeches by one of the most radical of America's early 20th century labor leaders which brings to life a once powerful socialist movement
