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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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Friday 15 October 2010, 09:06:21

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Global / Chile The dangers of mining around the world [BBC] 2010-10-15

Global Dock workers urged to step up global network terminals campaign [ITF] 2010-10-15

Zimbabwe Video interview: Wellington Chibebe ZCTU secretary-general [ITUC] 2010-10-15

UK Beer sales down as union warns of 'unsteady recovery' [GMB] 2010-10-14

Global DHL faces worldwide unrest [Transport and Logistics News] 2010-10-14

Greece Largest Union Calls General Strike For Dec 15 [The Wall Street Journal] 2010-10-14

Indonesia / UK Brit Unions bring Indonesian coffee protest onto the streets of Knightsbridge [TUC] For more info 2010-10-13

Chile Wild celebrations as first trapped mine worker rescued [Agence France Presse] 2010-10-13

Chile Miners True Working Class Heroes [Voxy] 2010-10-13

France New wave of French strikes raises spectre of May 1968 protests [Guardian] 2010-10-12

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American Samoa / USA Increased minimum wage hits planned new tuna cannery [RNZI] 2010-10-15 1 more labour news stories from American Samoa today

Argentina BA province teachers announce 48-hour strike [Buenos Aires Herald] 2010-10-15 2 more labour news stories from Argentina today

Australia Protections and rights for workers must be over-riding priority of national workplace health and safety laws [ACTU] 2010-10-14 39 more labour news stories from Australia today

Bangladesh Army deployed as port strike hits garment exports [AFP] 2010-10-15

Benin Trade unions slam govt over ban on protests [Afrique en Ligne] 2010-10-14

Brazil Most unions end 2-week strike, as bank workers see biggest real raise in 5 years [Business News Americas] 2010-10-14 1 more labour news stories from Brazil today

Canada / North America / Ontario Farm workers, 'dis is not slavery/ just poverty / speaking to democracy' For more info [Linchpin] 2010-10-15 34 more labour news stories from Canada today

Chile Chile Miners Start New Lives, Adjust to Freedom [Jakarta Globe] 2010-10-15 2 more labour news stories from Chile today

China IFJ Welcomes Party Elders' Call for Media Reform in China [IFJ] 2010-10-15

Egypt New boss of Al-Dostour refuses to meet journalist union [Al Masry Al Youm] 2010-10-15 1 more labour news stories from Egypt today

France Students injured in pension protest as strikes enter third day [Telegraph] 2010-10-15 11 more labour news stories from France today

Ghana Prez Mills to meet VC's over UTAG strike [CITI FM] 2010-10-14

Global Cooperation fostered to improve fishers’ lives [ITF] 2010-10-15 1 more labour news stories from Global today

Greece Riot police clash with protesting workers who block Acropolis [Metro] 2010-10-15 5 more labour news stories from Greece today

India Merger leaves Air India staff perplexed [DNA] 2010-10-15 7 more labour news stories from India today

Indonesia Indonesian Labor Minister vows to bring end to outsourcing [The Jakarta Globe] 2010-10-14 2 more labour news stories from Indonesia today

Ireland Firefighters vote for strike action [Tullamore Tribune] 2010-10-14 6 more labour news stories from Ireland today

Israel Makhteshim CEO to meet workers on sale option [Globes] 2010-10-14

Kenya Workers to strike over tea picking machines [The Standard] 2010-10-14

Latin America / Chile A 'miracle' in Chile, but mining accidents are often tragedies across Latin America [LA Times] 2010-10-15

Malaysia / Cambodia Illegal Cambodian migrant workers await decision in Malaysia [Phnom Penh Post] 2010-10-15

New Zealand Odds of Hobbit in NZ improve after talks with union [NZ Herald] 2010-10-15 3 more labour news stories from New Zealand today

Nigeria Ondo polytechnic staff insist on strike [Next] 2010-10-14 1 more labour news stories from Nigeria today

Philippines / Canada Ambassador from Canada ignores labour groups on asbestos [BWI] 2010-10-15 2 more labour news stories from Philippines today

Portugal Oil company workers to take part in Nov. 24 general strike [Reuters] 2010-10-14

Romania Finance Ministry staff protest wage cuts [AFP] 2010-10-14

Russia / Chile Bloggers bitter over Chile mine rescue in tragedy-hit Russia [AFP] 2010-10-15

Singapore NTUC aims to have one million members within five years [TODAY Online] 2010-10-14

Slovakia Government agrees to increase minimum monthly wage to €317 [Slovak Spectator] 2010-10-14 1 more labour news stories from Slovakia today

South Africa Cosatu: Strike over, but still no deal [Mail and Guardian] 2010-10-14

UK NHS cuts impacting on physiotherapy services for patients [CSP] 2010-10-15 24 more labour news stories from UK today

USA / Massachusetts Sodexo Workers Strike at Clark University Following a Community Rally for Better Jobs [SEIU] 2010-10-15 8 more labour news stories from USA today

Zimbabwe / Norway COSATU congratulates ZCTU's Wellington Chibebe [The Zimbabwean] 2010-10-15 2 more labour news stories from Zimbabwe today