World Labor Needs Independence and Solidarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9200381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Bacon (0000-0002-2562-8537, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 84 |
| Publication date | 2000-07-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-052-03-2000-07_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2055612932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Within weeks of the Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization (WTO), thousands of workers at India's state power company struck to prevent the privatization of electricity generation and distribution in Uttar Pradesh. Despite the jailing of hundreds of their leaders, they succeeded in halting it—at least for a time. Meanwhile, in ports along the subcontinent's coast, thousands more longshore workers also stopped work over privatization.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Bargaining power · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Ethnology · Independence (probability theory) · Indian subcontinent · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Solidarity · State (computer science) · Uttar pradesh · Work (physics) · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |