Building Global Labor Solidarity In A Time Of Accelerating Globalization

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : 43,5 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 : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Robert O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108480918

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Labour Internationalism in the Global South by Robert O'Brien Pdf

An analysis of labour internationalism that explores in depth the experience of the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR). This book will interest anyone concerned with the role of labour in the global economy, economic justice, global social movements, and internationalism.

Author : World Commission On The Social Dimension Of Globalization
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171884962

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A Fair Globalization by World Commission On The Social Dimension Of Globalization Pdf

Author : Christian Lahusen,Ulrike Zschache,Maria Kousis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030496593

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Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises by Christian Lahusen,Ulrike Zschache,Maria Kousis Pdf

This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, unemployment and immigration. Contributions assess how civic groups respond to the various crises affecting Europe, especially the economic and refugee crises, presenting new findings from a systematic comparative study conducted in eight European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK). The research will be of interest to scholars, students, journalists, policy-makers and activists interested in civil society, social movements, charitable actions, altruism and solidarity, as well as European studies and the socio-economic challenges of current European crises.

Author : Sabrina Zajak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349950225

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Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China by Sabrina Zajak Pdf

This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and often punitive, approach to worker organizations. The author examines how the global labor movement can support the improvement of working conditions in Chinese factories. The book presents a novel multi-level approach capturing how trade unions and labor rights NGOs have mobilized along different pathways while attempting to influence labor standards in Chinese supply chains since 1989: within the ILO, within the European Union, leveraging global brands or directly supporting domestic labor rights NGOs. Based on extensive fieldwork in Europe, the US and China, the book shows that activists, by operating at multiple scales, were on some occasions able to support improvements over time. It also indicates how a politically and economically strong state such as China can affect transnational labor activism, by directly and indirectly undermining the opportunities that organized civil societies have to participate in the evolving global labor governance architecture.

Author : Paul Adler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812299663

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No Globalization Without Representation by Paul Adler Pdf

Amid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism. Led by activists like Ralph Nader, organizations of lawyers and experts worked "inside the system." They confronted corporate power and helped win major consumer and environmental protections. By the late 1970s, some public interest groups moved beyond U.S. borders to challenge multinational corporations. This happened at the same time that neoliberalism, a politics of empowerment for big business, gained strength in the U.S. and around the world. No Globalization Without Representation is the story of how consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics at the twentieth century's close. NGOs like Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen helped forge a progressive coalition that lobbied against the emerging neoliberal world order and in favor of what they called "fair globalization." From boycotting Nestlé in the 1970s to lobbying against NAFTA to the "Battle of Seattle" protests against the World Trade Organization in the 1990s, these groups have made a profound mark. This book tells their stories while showing how public interest groups helped ensure that a version of liberalism willing to challenge corporate power did not vanish from U.S. politics. Public interest groups believed that preserving liberalism at home meant confronting attempts to perpetuate conservative policies through global economic rules. No Globalization Without Representation also illuminates how professionalized organizations became such a critical part of liberal activism—and how that has affected the course of U.S. politics to the present day.

Author : Christian Lahusen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789909500

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Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe by Christian Lahusen Pdf

Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe systematically dissects the manifestations of solidarity buried beneath the official policies and measures of public authority in Europe. In this exciting and innovative book, contributors offer comprehensive and original data and highlight the detrimental factors that tend to inhibit or annihilate solidarity, and those that are beneficial for the nurturing of solidarity.

Author : Bryant William Sculos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438489421

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The Dialectics of Global Justice by Bryant William Sculos Pdf

The Dialectics of Global Justice uses a novel application of negative dialectical interpretation to offer an immanent and ethical critique of prominent theories of global justice (i.e., cosmopolitanism), including how these theories manifest in political movements and policy agendas. Drawing on the work of Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm especially, author Bryant William Sculos exposes the contradictory relationship between cosmopolitanism and core elements of capitalism, particularly the domineering "capitalistic mentality" (re)produced by and through capitalism, leading to the conclusion that cosmopolitanism, on its own terms, demands an alternative, postcapitalistic political basis in order to make robust progress toward global justice. While offering this critique, Sculos also implicitly challenges the increasingly common view that cosmopolitanism today is inherently imperialistic and out of touch with the global resurgence of nationalism and anti-cosmopolitan sentiment.

Author : Michael Zweig
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798887440132

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Class, Race, and Gender by Michael Zweig Pdf

Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements. Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today’s most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy; patriarchy and male chauvinism; periodic economic crises; and the cultural conflicts that are tearing at US life. Michael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and moral transformation of life in the US. Building on his analysis, Zweig also presents strategies for political action in electoral and movement-building work.

Author : Robin Andersen,Purnaka L. de Silva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134969241

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Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action by Robin Andersen,Purnaka L. de Silva Pdf

In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that have come to define the twenty-first century. Contributors, including media professionals and experts in humanitarian affairs, grapple with what kinds of media language, discourse, terms, and campaigns can offer enough context and background knowledge to nurture informed global citizens. Case studies of media practices, content analysis and evaluation of media coverage, and representations of humanitarian emergencies and affairs offer further insight into the ways in which strategic communications are designed and implemented in field of humanitarian action.

Author : Grace Chang
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608465286

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Disposable Domestics by Grace Chang Pdf

This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

Author : Leandros Fischer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031446719

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The Crisis-Mobility Nexus by Leandros Fischer Pdf

Situated at the intersections of anthropology, migration, citizenship, and social movement studies, this volume theorises a crisis-mobility nexus by focusing on empirical case studies. These concern migration struggles; the entanglements of crisis, social mobility, and citizenship; as well as the impact of COVID-19 (im)mobility on social movements. By highlighting examples from these streams, the book illuminates entanglements between them, while emphasising the role of solidarity as well as de-solidarisation in creating, shaping, or resisting various regimes of mobility.

Author : Kim Moody
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,5 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