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

Author:   Kim Scipes
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Pages:   312
Publication Date:   15 September 2022
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Author:   Kim Scipes
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781793631527


ISBN 10:   1793631522
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   15 September 2022
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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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Building Global Labor Solidarity charts a new course in theorizing the significance of global labor solidarity today. In this comprehensive book, Kim Scipes brings together crucial chapters exploring and interpreting the meaning and uses of global labor solidarity. Scipes overturns the potted notion that the putative international agenda pursued by the dominant global trade unions in Europe and the United States is the main force for democracy and working class power. Rather, Scipes argues that Western unions must learn from the historical development of labor solidarity in the global South. This extensive and comprehensive historical account of labor solidarity across the South and beyond is a crucial intervention in scholarly labor debates through breaking with the prevailing understanding of trade union solidarity. Building Labor Solidarity is pivotal reading for scholars, students, and activists striving to comprehend the state of global trade unions and working class movements.--Immanuel Ness, Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; editor of Journal of Labor and Society Understanding social movement unionism and global worker solidarity is essential to creating solutions to the global economic and health crises that touch every worker on earth. Building Global Labor Solidarity digs deep into an analysis of some of the most exciting and sophisticated examples of this form of movement building. Few western analysts have put the time in on the ground in places like the Philippines to see what lessons can be learned from the workers themselves. Kim Scipes has done that with great passion.--Gene Bruskin, Co-founder, US Labor Against the War


Building Global Labor Solidarity charts a new course in theorizing the significance of global labor solidarity today. In this comprehensive book, Kim Scipes brings together crucial chapters exploring and interpreting the meaning and uses of global labor solidarity. Scipes overturns the potted notion that the putative international agenda pursued by the dominant global trade unions in Europe and the United States is the main force for democracy and working class power. Rather, Scipes argues that Western unions must learn from the historical development of labor solidarity in the global South. This extensive and comprehensive historical account of labor solidarity across the South and beyond is a crucial intervention in scholarly labor debates through breaking with the prevailing understanding of trade union solidarity. Building Labor Solidarity is pivotal reading for scholars, students, and activists striving to comprehend the state of global trade unions and working class movements. -- Immanuel Ness, Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; editor of Journal of Labor and Society Understanding social movement unionism and global worker solidarity is essential to creating solutions to the global economic and health crises that touch every worker on earth. Building Global Labor Solidarity digs deep into an analysis of some of the most exciting and sophisticated examples of this form of movement building. Few western analysts have put the time in on the ground in places like the Philippines to see what lessons can be learned from the workers themselves. Kim Scipes has done that with great passion. -- Gene Bruskin, Co-founder, US Labor Against the War Kim Scipes has devoted decades to thinking and theorizing deeply about global labor solidarity. His latest collection is so useful because he seriously integrates struggles from across the Global South-from the Philippines and South Africa-with efforts in Northwestern Europe and the United States. In the twenty-first century, as our world becomes more interconnected, we need his sort of writing. -- Peter Cole, Western Illinois University


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Kim Scipes is professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest.

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