"Go South": Union Organising in the 21st Century

Are the trade unions back? After the strike wave of 2022 and 2023 the unions are in a better place - more relevant, more active and more popular. They have achieved much in the last 2 years for their members during the worst cost of living crisis since the war. But what next? As strike days are falling again to pre 2022 levels and membership of trade unions is only showing qualified increases it seems that unions must look outside for inspiration. This books discusses where they might find it - in the Global South. Britain's trade union movement is is oldest in the world, among the most experienced and has dealt with an employing class that itself is the most experienced and, on the basis of super profits extracted form centuries of colonial domination, slavery and imperialist war is both immensely wealthy and determined to retain both power and riches. This book is offered as a contribution to that discussion not in the sense that all the arguments are closed off and that this represe