Research Catalog

Title

Place, space and the new labour internationalisms / edited by Peter Waterman and Jane Wills.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass., USA : Blackwell, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Waterman, Peter, 1936-2017
• Wills, Jane

Description

vi, 300 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Over the last 10 or 15 years there has been a revival of labor and trade union internationalism. This regeneration is attracting the attention of a new generation of committed thinkers who are deploying new types of scholarship. Labor internationalism is looked at not only in terms of political economy or industrial and international relations, but also in terms of social movement theory and in relationship to global civil society. Notions of labor-community alliances, or the alliance of labor with radical-democratic social movements, are being projected onto the world stage. Radical social geographers have made a notable contribution to this debate by focusing on the scaled politics of labor organisation. This collection, co-edited by scholars from an older and younger generation, is a very original attempt to grapple with the challenges of globalization for labor. The collection includes contributions from academics and activists based in the North and South.

Uniform Title

Antipode.

Subject

• Internationale Arbeitsorganisation
• Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund
• International labor activities
• Labor movement
• Labor unions
• Foreign trade and employment
• Globalization
• Industrial relations
• Labor Unions

Note

• "First published as a special issue of Antipode Vol. 33, No. 3, 2001"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : place, space and the new labour internationalisms : beyond the fragments? / Peter Waterman and Jane Wills -- Trade union internationalism in the Age of Seattle / Peter Waterman -- Southern unionism and the new labour internationalism / Rob Lambert and Eddie Webster -- Rethinking the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and its inter-American regional organization / Kjeld Jakobsen -- Transnational capital, urban globalisation and cross-borded solidarity : the case of the South African municipal workers / Franco Barchiesi -- Labor internationalism and the contradictions of globalization : or, why the local is sometimes still important in a global economy / Andrew Herod -- World trade and workers' rights : in search of an internationalist position / Rohini Hensman -- NAFTA's labor side agreement and international labor solidarity / Lance Compa -- European integration and industrial relations : a case of variable geometry? / Richard Hyman -- Uneven geographies of capital and labour : the lessons of European works councils / Jane Wills -- Women workers and the promise of ethical trade in the globalised garment industry : a serious beginning? / Angela Hale and Linda Shaw -- Propositions on trade unions and informal employment in times of globalisation / Dan Gallin -- A manifesto against femicide / Melissa Wright -- Union responses to mass immigration : the case of Miami, USA / Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier.

ISBN

0631229833

OCLC

• 48860816
• SCSB-12424968

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library