Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States
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.
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Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States
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.
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Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States

Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States

by Kim Scipes
Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States

Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States

by Kim Scipes

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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.

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ISBN-13: 9781793631510
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 10/13/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 599 KB

About the Author

Kim Scipes is professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest.

Table 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”

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