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Elites in Brazil and India responded to mass strikes with a turn to right-wing governments which could not prevent a new wave of strikes. The global conjuncture reveals limitations of the recent wave of mass strikes due to their relative isolation from other protest actors and their lack of broader political aspirations.
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Beverly Silver (2003) argues that the fusion of workers’ movements with broader political mobilisations in the cases of South Korea, Brazil and South Africa effectively raised the chances of success of labour unrest. It would be worthwhile to discuss to what extent the focus of these movements on authoritarian regimes, that is, the political level, weakened the class content of those mobilisations in the mid- and long-term perspective.
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Nowak, J. (2019). Conclusion. In: Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05375-8_6
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