Kim Scipes

Building Global Labor Solidarity (eBook, PDF)

Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Efforts to build bottom-up global labor solidarity began in the late 1970s and continue today, having greater social impact than ever before. In Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States Kim Scipes-who worked as a union printer in 1984 and has remained an active participant in, researcher about, and writer chronicling the efforts to build global labor solidarity ever since-compiles several articles about these efforts. Grounded in his research on the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, Scipes joins first-hand accounts from the field with analyses and theoretical propositions to suggest that much can be learned from past efforts which, though previously ignored, have increasing relevance today. Joined with earlier works on the KMU, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and efforts to develop global labor solidarity in a time of accelerating globalization, the essays in this volume further develop contemporary understandings of this emerging global phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978782532
• Artikelnr.: 74398734

Autorenporträt

Kim Scipes is professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Co