Description
Building Global Labor Solidarity During A Time Of Accelerating Globalization is an intimate and authoritative look at how workers are building solidarity, both at home and around the world, and identifies nine different types of global labour solidarity. While workers in the global South are looking for information, workers in the North are looking for inspiration. This book unites them both.
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).
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 Jungehulsing, Katherine Nastovski, Timothy Ryan, Michael Zweig
Reviews
"An insightful and edifying discourse on global labor issues, Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization shines both a practical and theoretical light on how labor movements are unifying workers across the globe to create a more independent economy loosening itself from corporate restraints. Even as the United States elects anti-union, anti-worker candidates, countries formerly paying slave wages like the Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines are developing unions and worker centers. Building Global Labor Solidarity is a must read for labor educations, activists, union organizers and anyone interested in the global labor market and how those markets can be transformed." Karen Ford, Former 3rd Vice President, National Writers Union UAW 1981 and author of, Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman "Kim Scipes has toiled long and hard to bring a thoughtful analysis of true international solidarity to American workers. He has exposed the duplicity of many in the US labor bureaucracy who have sided with corporate American internationally in the betrayal of workers struggles. This anthology of some of the finest thinkers on this topic is a must read." Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) "Kim Scipes has lived and breathed global labor solidarity for decades, and in this collection he presents essays from some of the most incisive thinkers he has met along the way. From multifaceted standpoints of solidarity, they move beyond critiques of the barriers we face to challenge us to achieve a world of justice, health and planetary survival." Todd Jailer, Workers' Guide to Health and Safety "Were organizers to begin studying the issues facing the working class today, each of these essays would be worth a major investment in time and energy" George N. Schmidt, Substance News
"An insightful and edifying discourse on global labor issues, Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization shines both a practical and theoretical light on how labor movements are unifying workers across the globe to create a more independent economy loosening itself from corporate restraints. Even as the United States elects anti-union, anti-worker candidates, countries formerly paying slave wages like the Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines are developing unions and worker centers. Building Global Labor Solidarity is a must read for labor educations, activists, union organizers and anyone interested in the global labor market and how those markets can be transformed." -Karen Ford, Former 3rd Vice President, National Writers Union UAW 1981 and author of, Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman "Kim Scipes has toiled long and hard to bring a thoughtful analysis of true international solidarity to American workers. He has exposed the duplicity of many in the US labor bureaucracy who have sided with corporate American internationally in the betrayal of workers struggles. This anthology of some of the finest thinkers on this topic is a must read." -Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) "Kim Scipes has lived and breathed global labor solidarity for decades, and in this collection he presents essays from some of the most incisive thinkers he has met along the way. From multifaceted standpoints of solidarity, they move beyond critiques of the barriers we face to challenge us to achieve a world of justice, health and planetary survival." -Todd Jailer, Workers' Guide to Health and Safety "Were organizers to begin studying the issues facing the working class today, each of these essays would be worth a major investment in time and energy" -George N. Schmidt, Substance News
Book Information
ISBN 9781608465996
Author Kim Scipes
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books
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).
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 Jungehulsing, Katherine Nastovski, Timothy Ryan, Michael Zweig
Reviews
"An insightful and edifying discourse on global labor issues, Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization shines both a practical and theoretical light on how labor movements are unifying workers across the globe to create a more independent economy loosening itself from corporate restraints. Even as the United States elects anti-union, anti-worker candidates, countries formerly paying slave wages like the Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines are developing unions and worker centers. Building Global Labor Solidarity is a must read for labor educations, activists, union organizers and anyone interested in the global labor market and how those markets can be transformed." Karen Ford, Former 3rd Vice President, National Writers Union UAW 1981 and author of, Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman "Kim Scipes has toiled long and hard to bring a thoughtful analysis of true international solidarity to American workers. He has exposed the duplicity of many in the US labor bureaucracy who have sided with corporate American internationally in the betrayal of workers struggles. This anthology of some of the finest thinkers on this topic is a must read." Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) "Kim Scipes has lived and breathed global labor solidarity for decades, and in this collection he presents essays from some of the most incisive thinkers he has met along the way. From multifaceted standpoints of solidarity, they move beyond critiques of the barriers we face to challenge us to achieve a world of justice, health and planetary survival." Todd Jailer, Workers' Guide to Health and Safety "Were organizers to begin studying the issues facing the working class today, each of these essays would be worth a major investment in time and energy" George N. Schmidt, Substance News
"An insightful and edifying discourse on global labor issues, Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization shines both a practical and theoretical light on how labor movements are unifying workers across the globe to create a more independent economy loosening itself from corporate restraints. Even as the United States elects anti-union, anti-worker candidates, countries formerly paying slave wages like the Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines are developing unions and worker centers. Building Global Labor Solidarity is a must read for labor educations, activists, union organizers and anyone interested in the global labor market and how those markets can be transformed." -Karen Ford, Former 3rd Vice President, National Writers Union UAW 1981 and author of, Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman "Kim Scipes has toiled long and hard to bring a thoughtful analysis of true international solidarity to American workers. He has exposed the duplicity of many in the US labor bureaucracy who have sided with corporate American internationally in the betrayal of workers struggles. This anthology of some of the finest thinkers on this topic is a must read." -Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) "Kim Scipes has lived and breathed global labor solidarity for decades, and in this collection he presents essays from some of the most incisive thinkers he has met along the way. From multifaceted standpoints of solidarity, they move beyond critiques of the barriers we face to challenge us to achieve a world of justice, health and planetary survival." -Todd Jailer, Workers' Guide to Health and Safety "Were organizers to begin studying the issues facing the working class today, each of these essays would be worth a major investment in time and energy" -George N. Schmidt, Substance News
Book Information
ISBN 9781608465996
Author Kim Scipes
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books
