Preface; Abbreviations; 1 A Conceptual and Theoretical Introduction; PART I Agricultural Aspects; 2 Organising Casual Workers on an Oil Palm Plantation in Ghana; 3 Ethnicity and Class: Issues in Organising Tea Plantation Workers in India; 4 From Flexible Work to Mass Uprising: The Western Cape Farm Workers' Struggle; 5 Organising Farm Workers in Gauteng: Economic Upgrading and Social Downgrading; PART II Urban Considerations; 6 Implications of Private Participationin Solid Waste Management for Collective Organisation in Accra, Ghana
7 Hybrid Organisations, Complex Politics: When Unions Form Cooperatives8 Sword of Justice or Defender of Vested Interest? The Struggles of Johannesburg's Municipal Workers; 9 Dickensian England in Twenty-first-century Delhi -- Without Great Expectations: Informal Labour Organising in the Manufacturing Sector; 10 Organising Vulnerable Home-based Workers in India; 11 Collective Agency and Organising among Domestic Workers in Ghana; Contributors; Index