<p>Statement of responsibility from cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.</p>

Introduction: New forms of worker organization / Immanuel Ness -- Autonomist unions in Europe and Asia. Operaismo revisited: Italy's state-capitalist assault on workers and the rise of COBAs / Steven Manicastri -- Autonomous workers' struggles in contemporary China / Au Loong Yu and Bai Ruixue -- Collective labor protest in contemporary Russia / Piotr Bizyuko and Irina Olimpieva -- Organizing autonomy and radical unionism in the global south. The struggle for independent unions in India's industrial belts: domination, resistance, and the Maruti Suzuki autoworkers / Arup Kumar Sen -- Exploding anger: workers' struggles and self-organization in South Africa's mining industry / Shawn Hattingh -- Neoliberal conservation and worker-peasant autonomism in Madagascar / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Sintracarbón: on the path to revolutionary labor unionism and politics in Colombia / Aviva Chomsky -- The formation of a new independent democratic union in Argentina: the Subte Transport Workers Union / Darío Bursztyn -- Organizing autonomy and radical unionism in the global north. Syndicalism in Sweden: a hundred years of the SAC / Gabriel Kuhn -- Doing without the boss: control experiments in Australia in the 1970s / Verity Burgmann, Ray Jureidini, and Meredith Burgmann -- Revolt in fast food nation: the wobblies take on Jimmy John's / Erik Forman -- The IWW Cleaners Branch Union in the United Kingdom / Jack Kirkpatrick -- Against bureaucratic unions: U.S. working-class insurgency and capital's counteroffensive / Immanuel Ness.