Explores the place of knowledge in contemporary capitalism by raising the question of how labour movements learn, what strategies they deploy to defend their interests and to what extent processes of neoliberal globalization and the new geography of global capitalism are producing alternative geographies of labour knowledge production and practice.

Mario Novelli, Anibel Ferus-Comelo

Introduction Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo 1. Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Labour Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo 2. Globalisation & Labour Movements: Transnational Solidarity & New Spaces Of Resistance Anibel Ferus-Comelo and Mario Novelli 3. Globalisation & Knowledge Production in Labour Movements Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo 4. Spaces of Engagement and Sintraemcali's Strategic Learning & Knowledge Production Mario Novelli 5. "Education Is Not For Sale": Teachers' Unions Pluri-Scalar Struggles against Liberalising the Education Sector Antoni Verger and Mario Novelli 6. Seeds Of Resistance: Popular Education and Community Unionism Among Women Workers Anibel Ferus-Comelo 7. Social Movement Unionism in the Philippines: Organising Displaced Workers from the Garments Industry Niels Beerepoot and Juan Hernandez-Agramonte 8. Contested Presence, Hopeful Future: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs in Canada Srabani Maitra 9. Learning Across Borders: A European Way? Andrew Mathers 10. New Strategies for Mobilising International Public Opinion against the Corporate Takeover of Latin America Andy Higginbottom 11. Queremos Vivir Sin Miedo [We Want To Live Without Fear] Raul Añorve and Idepsca Staff 12. Creating the Space for Optimism through Popular Education Anibel Ferus-Comelo and Mario Novelli