Place, space and the new labour internationalisms

Over the last 10 or 15 years there has been a revival of labor and trade union internationalism.

This regeneration is attracting the attention of a new generation of committed thinkers who are deploying new types of scholarship.

Labor 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 labor-community alliances, or the alliance of labor 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 labor organisation.

This collection, co-edited by scholars from an older and younger generation, is a very original attempt to grapple with the challenges of globalization for labor.

The collection includes contributions from academics and activists based in the North and South.Includes chapters from leading labor activists including Kjeld Jacobsen, International Secretary of the largest Brazilian trade union federation (the CUT) and Dan Gallin, Chair of the Global Labor Institute, Geneva Focuses on the interconnections between labor internationalism and the environment, women and race in North and South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South Africa.

Provides an up-to-date review of the academic literature on labor internationalism while exploring contemporary examples of workers' organization.