Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bieler, Andreas; Lindberg, Ingemar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity in a period of global restructuring. It brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation as well as co-operation between trade unions and social movements within the formal and informal economy, and the public and private sector.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136905797
• Artikelnr.: 43073297

Autorenporträt

Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham/UK. His research is predominantly focused on understanding the current struggle over the future economic-political model of the European Union (EU) and the possibilities to resist neo-liberal restructuring. He is author of Globalisation and Enlargement of the European Union (Routledge, 2000) as well as The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade unions and EMU in times of global restructuring (Manchester University Press, 2006). Ingemar Lindberg is a former Researcher and Social Policy Adviser to the Confederation of Swedish Trade Unions (LO) where he was responsible for the Social Justice Project 1991 - 95 and the main report to the 1996 LO Convention. He has written many books and articles, the latest being Den globala kapiutalismen och det nya motståndet (Global capitalism and the new resistance, Atlas 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction and Conceptual Considerations 1. Globalisation and the
new challenges for transnational solidarity: an Introduction Andreas Bieler
and Ingemar Lindberg 2. Trade unions, global competition and options for
solidarity Richard Hyman Part II: Trade union solidarity across borders?
3. West-East European Labour Transnationalism(s): Rivalry or Joint
Mobilisation? Magdalena Bernaciak 4. Detours of Solidarity: Experiences
from Ericsson in Colombia Jonas Sjölander 5. Building Rank and File
Activism: A Study of the Global Action Day Campaign in the History of the
International Transport Workers' Federation Mac Urata Part III:
Transnational solidarity involving trade unions and social movements 6.
Informal work and transnational organizing Ilda Lindell 7. What Does
Transnational Labour Organizing and Solidarity Mean for Sri Lankan Free
Trade Zone Women Workers? Samanthi Gunawardana 8. Victory through
solidarity? The story of a women workers' strike in Turkey's Antalya Free
Zone Tore Fougner and Ayça Kurtölu 9. Cross-border Wage Struggles in the
Global Garment Industry: The campaign for an Asia Floor Wage Jeroen Merk
Part IV: Transnational solidarity in defence of the public sector 10.
Challenging privatisation and access to health care services: the role of
trade unions Jane Lethbridge 11. Thinking through transnational solidarity:
The case of SINTREAMCALI in Colombia Mario Novelli Part V: Trade union
social movement co-operation in the developed world 12. How new social
alliances changed politics in Norway Asbjørn Wahl 13. Trade union and
social movement co-operation in the defence of the European public
sector(and a postscriptum with Jan Willem Goudriaan) Andreas Bieler Part
VI: What strategies towards transnational solidarity? 14. Making
connections: Transnational solidarity through the internet Bruce Robinson
15. Varieties of solidarity: an analysis of cases of worker action across
borders Ingemar Lindberg 16. Conclusions: A variable landscape of emerging
transnational solidarities Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg