AUT: NEW BOOK - Place, Space and New Labour Internationalisms

["Franco Barchiesi" <f_barchiesi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

New from Blackwell Publishers

"Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms"

Edited by Peter Waterman and Jane Wills

Over the last 10 or 15 years there has been a revival of labour and
trade union internationalism. This regeneration is attracting the
attention of a new generation of committed thinkers who are deploying
new types of scholarship. Labour internationalism is looked at not
only in terms of political economy or industrial and international
relations, but also in terms of social movement theory and in
relationship to global civil society. Notions of labour-community
alliances, or the alliance of labour with radical-democratic social
movements, are being projected onto the world stage. Radical social
geographers have made a notable contribution to this debate by
focusing on the scaled politics of labour organisation. This
collection, co-edited by scholars from an older and younger
generation, is a very original attempt to grapple with the challenges
of globalisation for labour. The collection includes contributions
from academics and activists based in the North and South.


CONTENTS:

1. Peter Waterman and Jane Wills: Place, space and the new labour
internationalisms: Beyond the fragments?

Part 1: New developments in trade union internationalism

2. Peter Waterman (Global Solidarity Dialogue): Trade union
internationalism in the age of Seattle.

3. Rob Lambert (Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union
Rights and University of Western Australia, Australia): Southern
unionism and the new labour internationalism.

4. Kjeld Jakobsen (Central Unica de trabalhadores, Brazil):
Rethinking the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and
its Interamerican regional organization.

5. Franco Barchiesi (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg):
Transnational capital, urban globalisation and cross-border
solidarity: the case of the South African municipal workers.

6. Andy Herod (University of Georgia): Labor internationalism and the
contradictions of globalisation: or, why the local is sometimes still
important in a global economy.

Part 2: New issues for labour internationalism

7. Rohini Hensman (Union Research Group, Bombay, India): World trade
and workers' rights: In search of an internationalist position.

8. Lance Compa (Cornell University, USA): NAFTA's labour side
agreement and international labour solidarity.

9. Richard Hyman (London School of Economics, UK): European
integration and industrial relations: a case of variable geometry.

10. Jane Wills (Queen Mary, University of London, UK): Uneven
geographies of capital and labour: the lessons of European Works
Councils.

11. Angela Hale and Linda Shaw (Women Working Worldwide): Women
workers and the promise of ethical trade in the globalised garment
industry: A serious beginning?

12. Dan Gallin (Global Labour Institute, Geneva): Propositions on
trade unions and informal employment in times of globalisation.

13. Melissa Wright (Penn State University, USA): A manifesto against
femicide.

14. Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier (Florida International
University,USA): Union responses to mass immigration: The case of
Miami, USA.

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