"Labour in the global South is an exciting contribution to the new field of global labour studies. It identifies in ten clearly written chapters the innovative and creative responses to the challenges facing labour worldwide." -Edward Webster, University of Kassel, Germany, and University of the...

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...

Introduction: Sri Lanka, the global south and worker struggles -- History of unions in Sri Lanka : the colonial state and political unionism -- The nurses' and a monk : limits of economic unionism -- Plantation workers and anti-Tamil violence : struggles of political unionism -- Free trade zone...