Global restructuring, labour, and the challenges for transnational solidarity [Elektronisk resurs] / edited by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg.

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction and conceptual considerations; 1 Globalisation and the new challenges for transnational solidarity: An introduction; 2 Trade unions, global competition and options for solidarity; Part II: Trade union solidarity across borders?; 3 East–West European labour transnationalism(s): Rivalry or joint mobilisation?; 4 Detours of solidarity: Experiences from Ericsson in Colombia. 
• 5 Building rank and file activism: A study of the Global Action Day Campaign in the history of the International Transport Workers' FederationPart III: Transnational solidarity involving trade unions and social movements; 6 Informal work and transnational organising; 7 What does transnational labour organising and solidarity mean for Sri Lankan free trade zone women workers?; 8 Victory through solidarity?: The story of a women workers' strike in Turkey's Antalya Free Zone; 9 Cross-border wage struggles in the global garment industry: The campaign for an Asia floor wage. 
• Part IV: Transnational solidarity in defence of the public sector10 Challenging privatisation and access to health care services: The role of trade unions; 11 Thinking through transnational solidarity: The case of SINTRAEMCALI in Colombia; Part V: Trade union: social movement cooperation in the developed world; 12 How new social alliances changed politics in Norway; 13 Trade union and social movement cooperation in the defence of the European public sector; Part VI: What strategies towards transnational solidarity?; 14 Making connections: Transnational solidarity through the Internet. 
• 15 Varieties of solidarity: An analysis of cases of worker action across borders16 Conclusions: A variable landscape of emerging transnational solidarities; Bibliography; Index. 

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Fackliga organisationer  (sao)

Fackföreningsrörelsen  (sao)

Globalisering  (sao)

Transnationalisering  (sao)

Internationellt fackligt arbete  (sao)

Globalization. 

International labor activities. 

Labor movement. 

Labor unions. 

Business. 

International labor activities  (LCSH)

Globalization  (LCSH)

Labor unions  (LCSH)

Labor movement  (LCSH)

Transnationalism  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

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HD6475.A1G56 2010 (LCC)

331.88 (DDC)

Ohai (kssb/8 (machine generated))