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Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.
About the author
Kim Scipes is associate professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest in Westville, Indiana. He has previously authored two books: KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980–1994 (New Day Books, 1996) and AFL-CIO’s Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? (Lexington Books, 2010).
Other contributors include: David Bacon, Bruno Dobrusin, Jenny Jungehülsing, Katherine Nastovski, Timothy Ryan, Michael Zweig
Summary
Uniting the global North and South in the struggle for a more just world for all workers.
Foreword
Publication of this collection will be announced in the American Sociological
Association’s monthly newsletter, as well as in the newsletters of its Labor & Labor Movements,Collective Behavior and Social Movements, and Global and Transnational Sociology sections. It will be announced in the newsletter of Research Committee 44 (Labor) of the International Sociological Association, as well as any other newsletters to which the various authors are connected.
It will be announced in labor activists’ networks, including US Labor against the War, Solidarity Information Services, Workers International News, and Portside, and we should be able to get video/audio interviews for Labor Beat/Labor Express in Chicago, Heartland Labor Radio in Kansas City, Building Bridges in New York City, as well as on Labor Video Project in San Francisco.
The book will be announced on Labour Start/Union Book, which is global, as well as Australian-Asian Labor Links in that region, Debate (southern Africa), and other global networks, including SIGTUR (Southern Initiative on Globalization and Trade Union Rights, a global network of mostly unions in the Global South).
