Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 24, 2009
Community Development Journal 2009 44(4):531-532; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp047
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Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenges of Neo-liberal Globalisation
Goldsmiths College, London
email: M.Mayo@gold.ac.uk
Andrew Gamble, Steve Ludlam, Andrew Taylor and Stephen Wood (eds), Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2007, 228 pp, ISBN 978 0 7586 5, Hardback, £55 stg.
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As the publicity for this edited collection explains, at a time when the world's working class has been growing faster than at any previous time in history, and neo-liberal orthodoxies are increasingly being challenged, it is time to question academic assumptions about the demise of labour and the role of labour organisations. Over the past