Building Global Labor Solidarity - Lessons From the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and

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.

List of contents

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"

About the author

Kim Scipes is professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Scipes, Scipes Kim
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2022
• EAN: 9781793631527
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-152-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Globalization, LAW / Labor & Employment, Economic theory & philosophy, Industrial Relations, Political Economy, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Employment & Labour Law, Central government policies, Economic theory and philosophy, Employment and labour law: general