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Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global

By Paul Mason

Live Working or Die Fighting is a two-hundred year story of the global working class and its many struggles for justice. The stories in the book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child labourers in Charles Dickens' England, visionary women on the barricades of Paris, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop the First World War.

Blending exciting historical narrative with reporting from today's front line, Paul Mason links the lives of nineteenth-century factory girls with the lives of teenagers in a giant Chinese mobile phone factory. He tells of how mass trade unions were form in London's Docklands and how they’re being reinvented by the migrant cleaners in skyscrapers that stand on the very same spot.

It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us.

The author is an award-winning journalist with the British Broadcasting Corp. and the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed. 305 pages paperback

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This week's top stories

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Global Photo-essay: The world's most repressive workplace environments [Foreign Policy] 2010-09-08

France Millions protest over higher pension age [NUPGE] 2010-09-08

South Africa Strike suspended: Unions claim victory [Times Live] 2010-09-07

India Trade unions go on a 24-hour nationwide strike [CNN-IBM] 2010-09-07

Global Unions Step up Pressure for Jobs and Social Justice – One Month to World Day for Decent Work [ITUC] 2010-09-07

USA Wisconsin Obama Unveils Huge Infrastructure/Jobs Program at Milwaukee’s LaborFest [AFL-CIO] 2010-09-07

France Unions to Strike as Sarkozy Pension Bill Debate Starts [Bloomberg] 2010-09-06

Mexico ICEM Condemns Repression of Workers by Government, Grupo Mexico [ICEM] For more info 2010-09-06

South Africa Did the World Cup Wreck South Africa? [Newsweek] 2010-09-04

North America Hyatt faces strikes and protests in cities across North America [UNITEHere!] 2010-09-04

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Africa Journalists across Africa to engage their govts on their safety & protection [The Zimbabwean] 2010-09-08

Asia / Sweden Asian Migrant Workers See Exploitation in Sweden [NY Times] 2010-09-08

Australia Death at work and work-related death [SafetyAtWorkBlog] 2010-09-08 24 more labour news stories from Australia today

Bangladesh RMG workers demonstrate closure of factory [The Daily Star] 2010-09-07 1 more labour news stories from Bangladesh today

Brazil Workers in three metal sectors get nine per cent rise in Brazil [International Metalworkers Federation] 2010-09-08

Cambodia Garment worker unionists to reconsider strike plan [Phnom Penh Post] 2010-09-08 1 more labour news stories from Cambodia today

Canada / Canada Literacy and unions – building stronger voices For more info [CUPE] 2010-09-08 26 more labour news stories from Canada today

Chile Trapped miners, families frustrated over mail delivery [Wash Post] 2010-09-07

Egypt Lawyers syndicate to appeal latest Tanta assault verdict [Al Masry Al Youm] 2010-09-08 1 more labour news stories from Egypt today

Europe Workers' Strikes Hit London, France [VoA] 2010-09-08

France Big turnout as French workers protest against pension reform [Irish Times] 2010-09-08 8 more labour news stories from France today

Ghana Brong Ahafo health workers celebrate 45th anniversary [Ghana Web] 2010-09-08

Global / USA BP releases internal Gulf disaster report For more info [SafetyAtWorkBlog] 2010-09-08 1 more labour news stories from Global today

India Perceptive ‘economic theorist' [the hindu] 2010-09-08 48 more labour news stories from India today

Indonesia / Malaysia Outcry over 63 Indonesian ‘slave women’ [The Jakarta Globe] 2010-09-08

Iraq IFJ Condemns Killing of Journalist in Iraq [IFJ] 2010-09-08

Ireland ICTU demands clarification from Minister of workfare proposal For more info [People Management] 2010-09-08 14 more labour news stories from Ireland today

Israel Strike at Ben Gurion Airport from Thursday [Globes] 2010-09-08 2 more labour news stories from Israel today

Jordan Ministry fines 35 employers for child labour violations [Jordan Times] 2010-09-08

Korea 'Stop Crackdown!', interview with MTU's president [CINA] 2010-09-07

New Zealand EPMU and Vector Taranaki agree 10% pay rise [EPMU] 2010-09-08 6 more labour news stories from New Zealand today

Pakistan Union makes appeal for flood-affected journalists [CPJ] 2010-09-08

Palestine / Israel Elevator technician killed on the job [Ma'an News Agency] 2010-09-08

Panama Global Unions Mission expresses unconditional support and solidarity with the Trade Union and civil society movement [BWI] 2010-09-07

Poland Occupation of Hospital Cleaners Against Precarity [Pracownik] 2010-09-08

South Africa State employees return to work after strike [Reuters] 2010-09-07 17 more labour news stories from South Africa today

Swaziland / South Africa COSATU condemns the arrest of 14 SAMWU members and PUDEMO President Mario Masuku in Swaziland [COSATU] 2010-09-08 8 more labour news stories from Swaziland today

Sweden / Asia Asian Migrant Workers See Exploitation in Sweden [NYT] 2010-09-08 1 more labour news stories from Sweden today

UK Poll says two-thirds of students wouldn't pay £7,000-a-year fees [UCU] 2010-09-08 20 more labour news stories from UK today

USA / North Carolina Groups plan to join national march [Bloomberg] 2010-09-08 22 more labour news stories from USA today

Zambia Munyenyembe accuses govt of intimidating MUZ [The Post] 2010-09-07 0 more labour news stories from Zambia today