Kim Scipes

Building Global Labor Solidarity

Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by Kim Scipes explores efforts to build global labor solidarity from the bottom up through analyses of the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and contemporary initiatives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781793631503
• ISBN-10: 1793631506
• Artikelnr.: 59079676

Autorenporträt

Kim Scipes is professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: San Francisco Longshoremen: "When that Ship Came in, We Were
Ready"
Chapter 2: Building the New Shop Floor Internationalism
Chapter 3: International Labour Reports: A Personal Report and Appreciation
Chapter 4: Using Comparative Methods to Understand Contemporaneous Labor
Movements: Rejecting a Structural-based Understanding
Chapter 5: Understanding Worker Mobilization Theoretically: What Can Labor
and Social Movement Theories Tell Us?
Chapter 6: Social Movement Unionism: A New Type of Trade Unionism
Chapter 7: Philippine Economic Development
Chapter 8: The Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement)
Chapter 9: A Look at KMU, 1986-1987
Chapter 10: Learning from the KMU: Alliance Building
Chapter 11: Social Movement Unionism: Can We Apply the Theoretical
Conceptualization to the New Unions of South Africa?
Chapter 12: Building International Labor Solidarity in the Face of
Political-Economic Globalization Processes: The Case of the KMU Labor
Center of the Philippines
Chapter 13: Theoretical Confusion in the Global Labor Movement:
Disentangling "Social Movement Unionism" from "Social Justice Unionism"