Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 Part I. Depressions and Working-Class Lives 1. Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto’s Dispossessed in the Age of Industry 19 Gaetan Heroux and Bryan D. Palmer 2. Working People’s Responses to Past Depressions 45 David Montgomery 3. Soviet Workers and Stalinist Terror: The Crisis of Industrialization 60 Wendy Goldman Part II. Economic Dislocation as Political Crisis 4. The Labor of Capitalism: Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of the Global Cotton-Growing Countryside 83 Sven Beckert 5. The Ordeal of Eugene Debs: The Panic of 1893, the Pullman Strike, and the Origins of the Progressive Movement 99 Scott Reynolds Nelson Part III. Social-Welfare Struggles from the Liberal to the Neoliberal State 6. Workers’ Social-Wage Struggles during the Great Depression and the Era of Neoliberalism: International Comparisons 113 Alvin Finkel 7. Politics and Policies in the 1970s and Early Twenty-first Century: The Linked Recessions 141 Judith Stein 8. Neoliberalism at Work in the Antipodean Welfare State in the Late Twentieth Century: Collusion, Collaboration, and Resistance 161 Melanie Nolan Part IV. Workers and the Shakeup of the New World Order 9. Want amidst Plenty: The Oil Boom and the Working Class in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1992–2010 187 Sean Cadigan 10. Whose Hard Times? Explaining Autoworkers Strike Waves in Recent-Day China 213 Lu Zhang 11. Transformative Power: Lessons from the Greek Crisis and Beyond 243 Hilary Wainwright 12. How Workers and the Government Have Dealt with Economic Crisis and Industrial Decline: 1929 and 2007 263 Edward Montgomery Contributors 289 Index 293 Workers in Hard Times ...