The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers' self-organization is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished...

General introduction / LU Xueyi HU Jianguo, YAN Ye XIE Zhengzhong -- The cause of people's welfare, well-being and livelihood / ZHAO Weihua -- Social undertakings / YANG Guihong -- Income distribution / LI Alin -- Urban and rural communities / ZHOU Yan -- Social organizations / CAO Feilian --...