CONTENTS

Letter from the Editor
6

Dossier: Who is the Working Class?
7

Ricardo Antunes : The Working Class Today: The New Form of Being of the Class Who Lives from its Labour
7

Nicolás Iñigo Carrera: Marx’s Concept of the Working Class and some Trends in the Development of Capitalism
19

Jorge Grespan : The Destiny of Labour in Capital Book III
37

Marcel van der Linden : Who are the Workers of the World? Marx and Beyond
55

Marcelo Badaró Mattos: The Working Class: A Contemporary Approach in the Light of Historical Materialism
77

Linda Briskin: Nurse Militancy and Strike Action
105

Terry Brotherstone: Energy Workers against Thatcherite Neoliberalism. Scottish Coalminers and North Sea Offshore Workers: Revisiting the Class Struggle in the UK in the 1980s
135

Ivan Bordetas Jimenez : “Las Ansias de Participación”: The Offensive of Urban Social Movements in the Process of Political Change in Spain (1975–77). A View from Barcelona’s Metropolitan Area
155

Angelo D’orsi and Francesca Chiarotto: L’ Ordine Nuovo and the Workers’ Councils Movement in Turin in the Postwar Years (1919–1920)
169

Wessel Visser : A Last Desperate, but Futile, Attempt to shore up the Industrial Pillars of Apartheid: The Miners’ Strike of 1979 and the Impact of the Wiehahn Reforms on South African Labour
195

David De Vries: Adamant and Multifaceted: Diamond Workers’ Strikes in World War II Palestine
215

Three Cheers for Data! Interviews with Beverly Silver and Sjaak van der Velden
Interviewer: Vilja Hulden
231

Authors
248