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

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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 Scipeswho 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 sincecompiles 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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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.

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Kim Scipes is professor of sociology at Purdue University Northwest.