This unique collection explores the different organizational forms, strategies and tactics that activists adopt. The authors examine how established trades unions struggle to reform, how non-governmental public actors negotiate various dilemmas, and the efforts of non-governmental public actors to secure justice.

This book provides a unique collection of studies on non-governmental public actors and social justice, ranging from workers' movements in Egypt to access to essential medicines activism in Tanzania

1. Introduction; J.Howell 2. Social Justice on the Shop Floor: Trade Union Reform in Russia, China and Vietnam; T.Pringle 3. From Corporatist to Autonomous: Unemployed Workers' Organisations and the Re-Making of Labour Subjectivity in Argentina; A.Dinerstein 4. Analysing Activist Cultures in the Egyptian Workers' Movement; A.Alexander 5. The Role and Potential of Co-operatives in the Poverty Reduction Process; J.Birchall & R.Simmons 6. NGOs, Consumer Rights and Access to Essential Medicines: Non-governmental Public Action in a Low Income Market Context; P.G.M.Mujinja, M.Koivusalo, M.Mackintosh & S.Chaudhuri 7. Surviving the 'Civil Society Dilemma': Critical Partners in Shaping the Behaviour of Non-Governmental Actors; M.arilyn Taylor, J.Howard & C.Miller 8. Citizen Engagement in Public Health Service Delivery: From Collaboration to Accountability; G.Blanco-Mancilla 9. Analysing Partnership in Aid Chains: A Case-study of the Catholic Church; S.Morse & N.McNamara 10. Conclusion; J.Howell