"This superb collection combines a radical, activist-inspired vision with up-to-date scholarship and theoretical insight. Bringing together in-depth analyses of specific case studies from different national contexts, the book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of current labor conflicts."
--Pnina Werbner, coauthor of Debating Cultural Hybridity

"This may be the single most important set of studies to come out of recent worldwide mobilizations. It tells us what the Left has to learn about labor if we are to take on the specter of the populist Right."
--Don Kalb, University of Bergen

"This book is pivotal to understanding global social movements. Sian Lazar has impressively drawn examples from around the world, demonstrating that resisting union bureaucracy and government authoritarianism is essential to creating enduring democratic structures. Essential for students of social movements."

--Immanuel Ness, City University of New York

"This desperately needed collection turns a crucial analytic lens on our current era of global uprisings. Richly comparative and with a broad historical frame, it makes clear that workers will remain pivotal to movements for other possible futures."
--Maple Razsa, author of Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism

Sian Lazar is currently a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (2008) and editor of The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader (2013). She is also joint editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies.