Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: rebuilding the unity of the 'labour front' -- Chapter 1 The future of the global working class: an introduction -- Chapter 2 The contested politics of gender and irregular employment: revitalizing the South Korean democratic labour movement -- Chapter 3 Globalization and the informalization of labour: the case of South Africa -- Chapter 4 Globalization and labour in India: emerging challenges and responses -- Chapter 5 How China's migrant labourers are becoming the new proletariat -- Chapter 6 The globalization of capital and its impact on the world of formal and informal work: challenges for and responses from Argentine unions -- Chapter 7 Neoliberal policies, labour market restructuring and social exclusion: Brazil's working-class response -- Chapter 8 The impact of globalization on trade unions: the situation in Japan -- Chapter 9 Challenges facing the Canadian labour movement in the context of globalization, unemployment and the casualization of labour -- Chapter 10 German trade unions between neoliberal restructuring, social partnership and internationalism -- Chapter 11 Swedish unions and globalization: labour strategies in a changing global order -- Chapter 12 Building alliances between formal and informal workers: experiences from Africa -- Chapter 13 European integration: a strategic level for trade union resistance to neoliberal restructuring and for the promotion of political alternatives? -- Chapter 14 A trade union internationalism for the 21st century: meeting the challenges from above, below and beyond -- Chapter 15 What future strategy for the global working class? The need for a new historical subject -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Index.