Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal GlobalisationWith the emergence of neo liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread