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Live Working or Die Fighting: How The Working Class Went Global by Paul Mason

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4.0

Full of excellent characters this book compares historic struggles with modern worker struggles - an finds there is a lot in common.

For me there were two highlights. Firstly the discussion of how globalisation left the British working class with no sense of meaning in a country where geographically fixed production gave way to a service based economy.

And secondly the insight into the US left. I wouldn't never have thought the US had such and illustrious labour movement.
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