Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Collective Impulse, Mobilisation and Political Economy -- 2 Overview of Organisation, Methods and Patterns of Struggle -- 3...

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...