Global Trade Unionism
(see also Trade Unionism & AFL-CIO Abroad)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Who Murdered Gilberto Soto? David Bacon, American Prospect (1/4/05).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Campaign for Labor Rights. Grassroots mobilizing for US anti-sweatshop movement.
Czarnecki's Labor Education Links.
Global Policy Network. Information on the state of working people in the global economy.
International Labor Organization (ILO).
International Labor Rights Fund.
National Labor Committee. In support of human & worker rights worldwide.
US/Labor Education in the Americas Project.
In the Library: Articles
Broad, Dave. "Globalization vs. labor," Monthly Review 47,7 (12/95):20-31.
Niyogi, Shankar Guha. "Beyond conventional trade unions in India," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 3,24 (1992).
Selçuk, Fatma Ulkü. "Dressing the wound: organizing informal sector workers," Monthly Review 57,1 (5/05):37-44.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Brecher, Jeremy; Tim Costello & Brendan Smith. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity (Boston, 2001).
Busch, Gary. The Political Role of International Trades Unions (London, 1983).
Fung, Archon; Dara O’Rourke & Charles Sabel. Can We Put an End to Sweatshops? A New Democracy Forum on Raising Global Labor Standards (Boston, 2001).
Hahnel, Robin. The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach (London: Pluto, 2002).
Hutchison, Jane & Andrew Brown (eds.) Organising Labour in Globalizing Asia (NY: Routledge, 2001).
Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon. Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory (Boston: South End, 2001).
Martens, Margaret Hosmer & Swasti Mitter (eds.) Women in Trade Unions: Organizing the Unorganized (Geneva: ILO, 1996).
Moody, Kim. Workers in a Lean World. Unions in the International Economy (London, 1997).
Olney, Shauna L. Unions in a Changing World (Geneva: ILO, 1996).
Petras, James. The Left Strikes Back. Class Conflict in the Age of Neoliberalism (Boulder, 1998).
Seidman, Gay W. Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil & South Africa, 1970-1985 (Berkeley: U. California, 1994).
Wood, Ellen Meiksins; Peter Meiksins & Michael D. Yates (eds.) Rising from the Ashes? Labor in the Age of "Global" Capitalism (NY: Monthly Review, 199?).