'How the working class went global', London

HOW THE WORKING CLASS WENT GLOBAL

Venue: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ

Time: Thursday 24 May, 1-2pm

Chinese factory workers, Bolivian miners and Somali office-cleaners in Canary Wharf – globalisation has created a whole new working class, and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago.

What might the new working classes of the global age learn from organised labour movements of the first industrial revolution?

In a world of multi-nationals, global capital and triumphant consumerism, can the bonds of worker solidarity survive?

With Paul Mason BBC Newsnight's Business and Industrial Correspondent and author of Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global