IntroductionPart One: The Study of Labour in Contemporary CapitalismGlobalisation, Precarisation, Politicisation: Shifts in the Field of Strike ResearchBeing on the Side of Workers: On the Normative Foundations of Global Labour StudiesContradictions and Shifting Fields of Visibility: The Intricate Relationship between Labour Scholarship and Labour ActivismThe Challenge of Strategic Research: A Critical Engagement with the Power Resources ApproachPart Two: Class-Analytical Strike Research: Concepts and MethodsThe Materiality of ClassAntagonism and Domination: Classes in CapitalismClass Struggle and Class Formation: The Emergence of Collective AgencyMass Organisations between Representation and IntermediationContradictory Class Relations and the Formation of Popular ForcesBeyond Methodological Fordism: The Case for Incorporated ComparisonsPart Three: Neoliberalisation and the Great Crisis: The Global Context of Recent Worker MobilisationsThe Global Picture: Neoliberal Capitalism in CrisisStrikes in Non-Industrial Workplaces around the WorldPart Four. Politicisation and the Reduction of Ambiguity: Non-Industrial Strikes in Western EuropeMoving beyond Occupational Unionism: The 2015 Strike Wave in the German Railway SectorMoving beyond Professional Work: The 2016 Junior Doctors' Strike in BritainAcross the Border, Beyond Wage Labour: The General Strikes in Spain in the 2010sA Reduction of Ambiguity: Collective Action in Post-Industrial Contexts and Working-class formationConclusion.