Building Global Labor Solidarity

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608466658

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Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization by Kim Scipes Pdf

This anthology explores the international labor movements building worker solidarity across the Global South. Since the 1980s, the world’s working class has been under continual assault by the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism. In response, new labor movements have emerged all over the world—from Brazil and South Africa to Indonesia and Pakistan. Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization is a call for international solidarity to resist the assaults on labor’s power. This collection of essays by international labor activists and academics examines models of worker solidarity, different forms of labor organizations, and those models’ and organizations’ relationships to social movements and civil society.

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793631510

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Building Global Labor Solidarity by Kim Scipes Pdf

Efforts to build bottom-up global labor solidarity began in the late 1970s and continue today, having greater social impact than ever before. In Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States Kim Scipes—who worked as a union printer in 1984 and has remained an active participant in, researcher about, and writer chronicling the efforts to build global labor solidarity ever since—compiles several articles about these efforts. Grounded in his research on the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, Scipes joins first-hand accounts from the field with analyses and theoretical propositions to suggest that much can be learned from past efforts which, though previously ignored, have increasing relevance today. Joined with earlier works on the KMU, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and efforts to develop global labor solidarity in a time of accelerating globalization, the essays in this volume further develop contemporary understandings of this emerging global phenomenon.

Author : Lowell Turner,Daniel B. Cornfield
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501726682

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Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds by Lowell Turner,Daniel B. Cornfield Pdf

Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds examines a diverse array of innovative strategies for revitalizing the labor movement by forming alliances outside the workplace with a variety of community groups, social movements, and faith-based organizations, particularly those that address civil rights, immigrant rights, and consumer concerns. This book presents case studies of issues—such as living wages, community development corporations, and local politics—around which urban coalitions are built in "union towns" (New York City, Boston, Buffalo, and Seattle), "frontier cities" (Los Angeles, Miami, San Jose, and Nashville), and European cities (London, Frankfurt, and Hamburg). Introducing the role of urban social context in the field of labor revitalization, the editors have chosen cases with different outcomes—cities in which strong coalitions have enabled new union influence are contrasted with those in which such coalition building has been thwarted. As they survey the successes and failures of the new urban labor movement, the editors and contributors conclude that actor choice, strategic innovation, coalition building, and the urban context of labor organizing are key elements in the revitalization of the labor movement and the renewal of democracy. This book will allow the labor leaders of the future to learn from the recent experiences of their peers throughout the United States and Europe.

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 9780739135020

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AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers by Kim Scipes Pdf

This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor. The author calls for American workers to join the global movement for economic and social justice and to extend globalization from 'below' against the values and activities of the top-down and destructive military-corporate globalization that has been sweeping the world for years.

Author : Jenny Jungehülsing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3866188978

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Transnational Migration and International Labor Solidarity by Jenny Jungehülsing Pdf

Author : Bill Fletcher,Fernando Gapasin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520261563

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Solidarity Divided by Bill Fletcher,Fernando Gapasin Pdf

The US trade union movement finds itself on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, this text is a critical examination of labour's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the 21st century.

Author : Staughton Lynd,Daniel Gross
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781604865691

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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer by Staughton Lynd,Daniel Gross Pdf

Have you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a union, do you find that it operates top-down just like the boss and ignores the will of its members? Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy. It demonstrates how a powerful model of organizing called “solidarity unionism” can help workers avoid the pitfalls of the legal system and use direct action to win. Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic social change from below, Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross deliver a practical guide for making work better while reinvigorating the labor movement. The book examines specific cases concerning fundamental labor rights and includes a section on tactics and principles of practicing solidarity unionism. Illustrative stories of workers’ struggles make the legal principles come alive. The New York Times has reported on the book’s importance in recent and ongoing labor organizing in the tech industry—for example among employees of Google, Kickstarter, and Uber, whose union campaigns were influenced by ideas gleaned from Labor Law for the Rank and Filer. Meredith Whittaker, a former Google research scientist who was one of the organizers of the 2018 Google employee walkout, said that the book has been “incredibly helpful in thinking through options for action, ways of building collective power, and giving workers who often aren’t familiar with labor law some working knowledge that can guide decision making.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448049

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Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations by Anonim Pdf

This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies placing labor at the centre of their analysis. It represents an important contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labour history.

Author : Michael E. Gordon,Michael Ernest Gordon,Lowell Turner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801437792

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Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions by Michael E. Gordon,Michael Ernest Gordon,Lowell Turner Pdf

Organized labour faces many challenges in the increasingly global economy, including the portability of technology and capital, and lowered trade barriers. This text, however, presents evidence that unions can survive and grow if labour is willing to co-operate across national borders. The book is a study of such co-operation as an effective weapon against the exploitation of workers in today's world.

Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629631288

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Solidarity Unionism by Staughton Lynd Pdf

Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor. Drawing deeply on Staughton Lynd's experiences as a labor lawyer and activist in Youngstown, OH, and on his profound understanding of the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Solidarity Unionism helps us begin to put not only movement but also vision back into the labor movement. While many lament the decline of traditional unions, Lynd takes succor in the blossoming of rank-and-file worker organizations throughout the world that are countering rapacious capitalists and those comfortable labor leaders that think they know more about work and struggle than their own members. If we apply a new measure of workers’ power that is deeply rooted in gatherings of workers and communities, the bleak and static perspective about the sorry state of labor today becomes bright and dynamic. To secure the gains of solidarity unions, Staughton has proposed parallel bodies of workers who share the principles of rank-and-file solidarity and can coordinate the activities of local workers’ assemblies. Detailed and inspiring examples include experiments in workers' self-organization across industries in steel-producing Youngstown, as well as horizontal networks of solidarity formed in a variety of U.S. cities and successful direct actions overseas. This is a tradition that workers understand but labor leaders reject. After so many failures, it is time to frankly recognize that the century-old system of recognition of a single union as exclusive collective bargaining agent was fatally flawed from the beginning and doesn’t work for most workers. If we are to live with dignity, we must collectively resist. This book is not a prescription but reveals the lived experience of working people continuously taking risks for the common good.

Author : Peter Fairbrother,Christian Lévesque,Marc-Antonin Hennebert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136681844

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Transnational Trade Unionism by Peter Fairbrother,Christian Lévesque,Marc-Antonin Hennebert Pdf

Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories. This book is concerned with understanding the spatial extension of trade union action, and in particular the development of new forms of collective mobilization, network-building, and forms of regulation that bridge local and transnational issues. Through the work of leading international specialists, this collection of essays examines the process and dynamic of transnational trade union action and provides analytical and conceptual tools to understand these developments. The research presented here emphasizes that the direction of transnational solidarity remains contested, subject to experimentation and negotiation, and includes studies of often overlooked developments in transition and developing countries with original analyses from the European Union and NAFTA areas. Providing a fresh examination of transnational solidarity, this volume offers neither a romantic or overly optimistic narrative of a borderless unionism, nor does it fall into a fatalistic or pessimistic account of international union solidarity. Through original research conducted at different levels, this book disentangles the processes and dynamics of institution building and challenges the conventional national based forms of unionism that prevailed in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Author : Kathleen Weekley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCSD:31822031194301

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The Communist Party of the Philippines, 1968-1993 by Kathleen Weekley Pdf

Author : Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg,Devan Pillay
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131648300

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Labour and the Challenges of Globalization by Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg,Devan Pillay Pdf

This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy. Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more impoverished ones. The study identifies new or renewed labour responses among formalised core workers as well as those on the periphery, including street-traders, homeworkers and other 'informal sector' workers. The book contains ten country studies, including India, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. It argues that workers and trade unions, through intensive collaboration with other social forces across the world, can challenge the logic of neoliberal globalization.

Author : Kim Moody
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608468720

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On New Terrain by Kim Moody Pdf

“A detailed and provocative study of how capital has changed since the 1980s and its effects on the working class and political parties in the USA.” —Scottish Left Review On New Terrain challenges conventional wisdom about a disappearing working class and the inevitability of a two-party political structure as the only framework for struggle. Through in-depth study of the economic and political shifts at the top of society, Moody shows how recent developments in capitalist production impact the working class and its power to resist the status quo. He argues that this transformed industrial terrain offers new possibilities for organization in the workplace and opens doors for grassroots, independent political action strengthened by reemerging labor and social movements. From the logistics revolution to the unprecedented concentration of business and wealth in the hands of the one percent, On New Terrain examines the impact of the current economic terrain on the working class in the United States. Looking beyond the clichés of precarity and the gig economy, Moody shows that the working class and its own self-activity are essential in the global battle against austerity. “[A] masterful and much-needed book.” —Solidarity “Immediately shakes the reader by offering a hard hitting, concrete and sober analysis of the transformation of both the capitalist and working classes of the USA.” —Bill Fletcher, Jr., coauthor of Solidarity Divided “He explodes myths about the gig economy and the potential to transform the Democratic Party. Readers will put the book down convinced that there is a way for workers to win.” —LaborNotes

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324824

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International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939 by Anonim Pdf

International Communism and Transnational Solidarity offers an analysis of the organization of radical international solidarity by so-called ‘Non-Party Mass Organisations’ and ‘Sympathising Organisations for Special Purposes’ that had been established by or were connected to the Communist International.