Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Thematic issue of Working USA on Global labor solidarity edited by Kim Scipes

Thematic issue edited by Kim Scipes: "Working USA. The Journal of Labor and Society", 17 (2)



The list of articles in the issue:
—  “Theoretical Reflection on the Emergence of Global Labor Solidarity” by Kim Scipes.

— “South-South Labor Internationalism:  SIGTUR and the Challenge to the Status Quo” by Bruno Dobrusin.

— “International Solidarity or Renewed Trade Union Imperialism?  The AFL-CIO and Garment Workers in Bangladesh” by Zia Rahman and Tom Langford.

— “Stitching Together:  How Workers Are Hemming Down Transnational Capital in the Hyper-Global Apparel Industry” by Ashok Kumar and Jack Mahoney.

— “Workers Confront Apartheid:  Comparing Canadian Labor Solidarity Campaigns against South African and Israeli Apartheid” by Katherine Nastovski.

— “How ‘Partnership’ Weakens Solidarity:  Colombian GM Workers and the Limits of UAW Internationalism” by Kevin Young and Diana C. Sierra Becerra.

— “Working for Global Justice in the New Labor Movement” by Michael Zweig.

— “A Review of American Labor’s Global Labor Ambassadors:  The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War, edited by Robert Anthony Waters and Geert van Goethem” by Kim Scipes.