Alexander, Robin and Peter Gilmore 1994. "The emergence of Cross-Border Labor Solidarity," NACLA: Report on the Americas. 28(1):42-48.

Abstract: Mexican and US trade union solidarity is forcing many transnationals operating in Mexico to modify their labor practices and listen to the demands of their employees. The alliance, which is being supported by US and Mexican workers, aims to counter the economic and political effects brought by the implementation of North American Free Trade Agreement, US trade unions will assist their Mexican counterparts in organizing union activities and improving wages and benefits. Available for UC students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Armbruster, Ralph, 1998b. Globalizationand Cross Border Labor Organizing in the Garment and Automobile Industries, University of California Riverside, unpublished dissertation.

Includes six case studies of recent cross border efforts between the U.S. and Latin America (Mexico and Guatemala).

Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph, 1999. "Globalization and Cross Border Labor Organizing: The Guatemalan Maquila Industry and the Phillips Van Heusen Workers' Movement." Latin American Perspectives. 26(2): 108-128.

The Abstract is available to UC students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Asia Monitor Resource Center, 1988. "At the Crossroads"

A report on the proceedings of the 1988 Conference on independent Hong Kong unions and the international trade secretariats. Available through AMRC.


Asia Monitor Resource Center, 1998. We in the zone: women workers in Asia's exporting processing zones.

The final report of a two-year project on women in export processing zones, the book contains information and reports about EPZs in South Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Hong Kong. It highlights the key issues affecting zone workers - particularly women - in each of these countries in the context of export oriented development and current global trends. Available through the AMRC.


Asian Labor Update, 1998. "Codes of Conduct: will they make this a thing of the past?" June 1998.

A quarterly magazine on labor in Asia. Selected articles and information on how to get complete copies are available through the AMRC.


Bacon, David, 1998. "Testing NAFTA's labor side agreement," NACLA Report on the Americas, 31(6): 6-9.

A selection of Bacon's work is available on line at http://www.igc.org/dbacon/. UC students can also access this article through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Bacon, Nicholas and Paul Blyton, 1998. "Re-Casting the Politics of Steel in Europe: The Impact of Trade Unions," West European Politics 19:770-86.

Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Bandy, Joe, 1997. "Reterritorializing borders: transnational environmental justice movement on the U.S./Mexican border," Race, Gender, Class 5(1): 80-103.

Available in the Main and Ethnic Studies Libraries at UCB


Bergquist, Charles, ed. 1984. Labor in the Capitalist World Economy. Beverly Hills and London: Sage.

Includes: Bergquist and Beverly Silver, 1984. "Labor Movements and Capital Migration; The United States and Western Europe in World-Historical Perspective," in Charles Bergquist, ed., Labor in the Capitalist World-Economy. Beverly Hills and London: Sage, pp. 183-216.


Borderlines 48, 1998. Special Issue on Independent Labor Unions. September 1998.

The Issue is available on line at Borderlines' website.


Boswell, Terry, and Dimitris Stevis. 1997. "Globalization and international labor organizing: A world-system perspective." Work & Occupations 24:288-308.

Labor unions have not been associated with globalization the way other organizations have. Using a World Systems approach the authors explain why this is so, review the current state of international unionism and suggest that social movement unionism is the best way for labor to proceed. They advocate for a long term comparative research agenda that pays attention to the world system and the history of previous attempts at labor internationalism. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Bowden, Charles. 1998. Juárez : the laboratory of our future. New York: Aperture.

Notes: Forward by Noam Chomsky on NAFTA ; afterword by Eduardo Galeano


Bronfenbrenner, Kate, 1997. "We'll Close: Plant closings, plant-closing threats, union organizing and NAFTA." Multinational Monitor, Vol. 18, No. 3.

Available online at Multinational Monitor and to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Chin, Christine, and James H Mittelman 1997. "Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalization," New Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 1.

Starting with Volume 3, No. 3 issues of New Political Economy are available (for UC students) through the ABI/Inform database of the California Digital Library.


Coats, Stephen 1995. "Organizing and repression." Multinational Monitor v16, n6.

In 1995, allegations of repression were recorded in Guatemala's Maquiladora industry, where union leaders had been abducted and threatened with death. Subsequently, the Office of the US Trade Representative put Guatemala 'under review' as permitted under the Generalized System of Preferences trade program. The program has yielded few changes in labor in Guatemala. Also Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database..


Cockburn, Cynthia 1997. "Gender in an international space: trade union women as European social actor," Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 20, Issue 4

Abstract: The European Union provides for trade unions (and employers) to share in policy-making. The structures and processes of this "European Social Dialogue" are coming to constitute an international space in which trade unionists of the various member states can meet each other and shape a common agenda. Women have been mobilizing to enter this arena and to introduce a gender perspective to labour movement interventions in European policy. Drawing on new research, the article analyses these developments and, drawing on recent feminist critiques of international relations theory, shows how women's incursions into this international arena tend to re-define the concerns of IR, its actors and its concepts. Available through the Women Studies International Forum.


Cockcroft, James, 1998. "Gendered Class Analysis: Internationalizing, Feminizing, and Latinizing Labor's Struggle in the Americas," Latin American Perspectives, 26(6): 42-46.

Abstract: More gendered and internationally oriented class analysis and activism involving women and labor in Latin America is needed for there to be effective organization of unions and social movements against capital. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database..


Collier, Ruth Berins and Mahoney, James 1997. "Adding collective actors to collective outcomes: labor and recent democratization in South America and Southern Europe." Comparative Politics 29(3):285-304.

Abstract: Labor unions played an important part in recent democratic transitions. One of the major actors in the political opposition is the labor movement. The collective action of the working class was a challenge to transitional regimes such as South America and Southern Europe, thus, transitions are not purely elite-led projects. The union-led protests destabilized authoritarian rule, paving the way for democratization. Labor-based parties won a place in negotiations and expanded political space and scope of contestation in the new democratic order. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database..


Compa, Lance 1993. "International Labor Rights and the Sovereignty Question: NAFTA and Guatemala, Two Case Studies." American University Journal of International Law and Policy 9(Fall).

Worker rights advocates in trade unions, human rights groups, and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played an increasingly important role in promoting internationally established fair labor standards as a factor in international trade. But more damaging to the local economy and Mr. Serrano's cause could be the call by U.S. labor rights groups to revoke Guatemalan industry's tariff-free access to the United States market for certain products. Lawyers and law students from the International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, the U.S.- Guatemala Labor Education Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School, with pro bono assistance from two Washington, D.C. law firms and attorneys in Miami, Florida, devised a plan to sue the United States owner of the Guatemalan factory on behalf of the fired workers. Available for UC Berkeley students through the Law Reviews database in the Legal Research section of Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Compa, Lance 1995. "Going Multilateral: The Evolution of U.S. Hemespheric Labor Rights Policy Under G.S.P. and NAFTA," Connecticut Journal of International Law Vol. 10, p 337.

The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation took shape in a period of growing international concern about "linkage" between labor rights and trade following a decade of activism by trade union, human rights, religious, consumer, and allied groups to have unilateral labor rights conditionality added to a range of U.S. trade and investment legislation. But one of the strongest criticisms of the NAALC comes from trade unionists and labor rights advocates regarding the accord's three-tiered hierarchy of review and enforcement, which excludes rights of association and organizing, collective bargaining, and the right to strike from any multilateral consideration or enforcement mechanism. Available to UC Berkeley Students through the Law Reviews Database in the Legal Research section of Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Compa, Lance 1998. "The multilateral agreement on investment and international labor rights: A failed connection." Cornell International Law Journal 31(3):683-712.

MAI negotiators should be credited with recognizing the need to address labor rights in the Agreement and for conceding, at least in principle, that violating workers' rights should not be a means of gaining a comparative advantage in trade and investment. But a statement of "commitment" to core labor standards or "support" for OECD Guidelines in the Preamble to the MAI is no more than a weak exhortation that creates no obligations among signatories. Advocates of core standards argue that limiting a labor rights regime to universal human rights standards sustains a consensus in favor of labor rights. Most corporate codes of conduct contain more than core- norm construction, but do not usually reach as many concerns as the NAALC, EU, and UN formulations. Available to UC Berkeley Students through Law Review Database in the Legal Research section of Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Compa, Lance and Stephen F. Diamond (eds.), 1996. Human rights, labor rights, and international trade, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Contents: Labor Rights and Human Rights: An Historical Perspective/ David Montgomery - The Paradox of Workers' Rights as Human Rights/ Virginia Leary - Human Rights and Labor Rights: A European Perspective/ Denis MacShane - Labor Rights Provisions in U.S. Trade Law: "Aggressive Unilateralism?"/ Philip Alston - In from the Margins: Morality, Economics, and International Labor Rights/ Stephen Herzenberg - At the Junction of the Global and the Local: Transnational Industry and Women Workers in the Carribean/ Cecilia Green - Multinational Enterprises and International Labor Standards:Which way for Development and Jobs/ R. Michael Gadbow and Michael Medwig - From Intention to Action: An ILO-GATT/WTO Enforcement Regime for International Labor Rights/ Daniel Ehrenberg - Private Labor Rights Enforcement Through Corporate Codes of Conduct/ Lance Compa and Tashia Hinchliffe Darricarrere - Labor Rights in the Global Economy: A Case Study of the North American Free Trade Agreement/ Stephen Diamond - International Worker Rights Enforcement: Proposals Following a Test Case/ Terry Collingsworth - The Pico Case: Testing International Labor Rights in US Courts/ Frank Deale - The Castro Alfaro Case: Convenience and Justice - Lessons for Lawyers in Transcultural Litigation/ Emily Yozell.


Connolly, Catherine et al., 1997. "The NAFTA Labor Agreement and U.S. Employment Discrimination Law," Social Justice, Spring 1997, pp. 148-162.

Abstract: The study indicates the Labor Agreement, which was intended to define the labor goals of member nations and obligations toward their workers, is illusory. No mechanisms and standards were established to confirm whether or not the goals were met. The NAFTA Labor Agreement has not improved the lives of workers in member nations. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database..


Cook, M. L. 1999. Trends In Research On Latin American Labor And Industrial Relations, Latin American Research Review 34:237-254.

"Industrial restructuring in Mexico: Corporate adaptation, technological innovation, and changing patterns of industrial relations in Monterrey., (1993) (English) by M.D. Pozas." "Latin American trade unionism: Between renovation and resignation, (1995) (Spanish) by M.S.P. de Castro, A. Wachendorfer "Neoliberal model and trade unions in Latin America, (1993) (Spanish) by H.D. Kohler, M. Wannoffel "Restructuring of production and responses of labor unions in Mexico, (1993) (Spanish) by E.D. Toledo."




Danaher, Kevin (ed.) 1997. Corporations are gonna get your mama: globalization and the downsizing of the American Dream Monroe ME?: Common Courage Press.

Notes: with a forward by Noam Chomsky. The introduction is available online at the Global Exchange Publications Page.


Davis, Benjamin 1995. "The Effects of Worker Rights Protections in US Trade Laws: A Case Study of El Salvador" The American University Journal of International Law and Policy 10(Spring).

Available for UC Berkeley Students through Lexis Nexis Academic Universe Law Review Database of Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Dollars and Sense: What's Left in Economics, 1997: "The Global Economy," Vol. 213, September 1997.

Special Section: Labor Explores New Terrain: Articles by: David Bacon - "The Promise of a Wage is not enough," and Coming in From the Cold in the Struggle for Solidarity by Abby Scher. Available on line through The Dollars and Sense Magazine Archive.


Frege, C. M., and A. Toth. 1999. "Institutions matter: Union solidarity in Hungary and East Germany." British Journal of Industrial Relations 37:117-140.

Abstract: Authors present research on the comparative level of solidarity among unionized workers in two former eastern block countries and find that social institutions supporting solidarity are important to workers' sentiments.


Greenfield, Gerard, 1996. "Global Business Unionism," Asian Labor Update, Aug-Oct 1996.

A quarterly magazine on labor in Asia. Selected articles and information on how to get complete copies are available on line at AMRC.


Greitzer, Deborah, 1995. "Thirteenth Annual National Labor Law Writing Competition: Cross-Border Responses To Labor Repression In North America." Detroit College of Law Review, Fall 1995.

Available through the Law Reviews Database in the Legal Research section of Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Hecker, Steven and Margaret Hallock (eds.) 1991. Labor in a Global Economy: Perspectives from the US and Canada, Eugene: University of Oregon Books.

Contents: Ray Marshall/ "Labor in a Global Economy"- Shirley Carr/ "Canadian Labor Strategies for a Global Economy" ? Mel Watkins/ "Recent Developments in the Canadian Political Economy"- Elaine Bernard/ "Labor and Politics in the US and Canada"- Lawrence Kenney/ "Restructuring in Industrial Relations and the Role for Labor"- Peter Dorman/. "Trade, Competition, and Jobs: An Internationalist Strategy"- Peter Donohue/"Labor Alternatives to International Competition"- Leo Gerard/ "Challenging the Ethic of Competitiveness: What's at stake for Labor"- Larry Cohen/ "An International Mobilization Strategy"- Fred Pomeroy/ "Mobilizing Across Borders: Unions and Multinational Corporations"- Dan Swinney/ "Expanding Labor's Agenda: Community Coalitions, Capital Strategies and Economic Development"- Jim Tusler/ "Labor has no choice but to play the capital strategies game"- Daniel Marschall/ "Flexibility, the nature of work and labor market policy"- Max Ogden/ "Australian Union Movement Strategy"- Steven Deutsch/ "Flexible Labor Markets and Labor Training - An American and International Analysis"- Maryantonett Flumian/ "Flexibility, Job Security and Labor Market Policy"- Ted Wheelwright/ "The Impact of International Capital on Australian Labor"- Raymond Harbridge/ "The Most Un-Laborlike Experience - Six Years of a Labor government in New Zealand and its Impact on Organized Labor"- Karen Nussbaum/ "The New Work Force: Management and Labor Forces"- Joy MacPhail/ "The Contingent Workforce In Canada: Problems and Solutions"- Jose La Luz/ "A Multicultural Framework for Worker Education"- Laurie Clements/ "The Politics of Privatization: Public It's Ours, Private, It's theirs"- John T. Shields/ "Fighting Privatization: The British Columbia Experience"- Stan Lanyon and Robert Edwards/ "The Right to Organize: Labor Law and Its Impact on British Columbia"- Keith Oleksiuk/ "Organizing in Canada: Adapting to Changing Conditions"- Katie Quan./ "Organizing Immigrant Workers In A Global Economy"- Robert Sass/ "The Deficiency of the VoluntayCompliance Model as a Public Policy Instrument in Workplace Health and Safety in Canada"- Robin Baker/ "Occupational Health and Safety Twenty Years after OSHA"- Marcus Widenor/ "Pattenr Bargaining in the Pacific Northwest Lumber and Sawmill Industry: 1980-1989"- Norman MacLellan/ "Pattern Bargaining in the Wood Products Industry in Western Canada"- Denny Scoot/ "Current Issues and Future Strategies for Forest Product Unions"- Cathy Schoen/ "Paying to Much, Buying too little: US Medical Care on the Critical List"- E. Richard Brown/ "The Uninsured and Rising Health Care Costs: The Problems and What We Can Do about Them"- David Schreck and Paul Petrie/ "Health Care :Lessons from Canada"- John Kitzhaber/ "The role of the states in health care reform."


Herod, Andrew, 1995. "The Practice of International Labor Solidarity and the Geography of the Global Economy," Economic Geography 71: 341-363.

Key words: labor unions, foreign direct investment, United Steelworkers of America, international solidarity, global economy, corporate campaign, international trade secretariats, Marc Rich. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database..


Hyman, R. and A. Ferner, 1994. New Frontiers in European Industrial Relations, Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.

Contents: Economic Restructuring , Market Liberalization and the Future of National Industrial Relations Systems/ R. Hyman - The Structure of Transnational Capital in Europe: the emerging Euro-company and its implications for industrial relations/P Marginson and K Sisson - The State as Employer/Anthony Ferner - European Trade Unions: The transition years/Jelle Visser - Changing Trade Union Identities and Strategies/R. Hyman - Does feminization mean a flexible labor force?/J.Rubery and C. Fagan - Industrial Order and the Transformation of Industrial Relations: Britain, Germany, and France Compared/C.Lane - Beyond Corporatism:The Impact of Company Strategy/C. Crouch? Workplace Unionism: Redefining Structures and Objectives/M. Terry - Strikes and Industrial Conflict: Peace in Europe?/PK Edwards and R. Hyman - Industrial Relations and the Social Dimension of European Integration: Before and After Maastricht/M. Hall - Tripartism in Eastern Europe/l. Hethy - The Changing Contours of Trade Unionism in Eastern Europe and the CIS/D. MacShane - Post Communism and the Emergence of Industrial Relations in the Workplace/S.Clarke and P. Fairbrother.


International Labor Organization, 1996. Globalization of the footwear, textiles and clothing industries. Geneva: ILO.

Report focuses on the net employment gain at the world level from the industry's globalization, the drop in earnings among higher-income countries' workers and income gains in lower-income countries. Also addresses differential work time impacts on countries, the debates about upward and downward convergence in earnings, and health and safety issues.


International Labor Organization, 1997. Note on the Proceedings: Tripartite Meeting on the Globalization the footwear, textiles, and clothing industries: effects on employment and working conditions. Geneva: ILO.

ILO publication including resolutions adopted, meeting minutes, etc.


International Labor Organization, 1998. Labor and social issues relating to export processing zones: report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting of Export Processing Zones-Operating Countries, Geneva: International Labor Office.

Report provides an overview of the variation between nations in terms of the structure and operation of export processing zones, considering the zones as the vehicle of foreign investment-led, export-oriented industrialization. They raise a number of problematic labor and social issues, notably those related to women's employment in such zones, the low-wage, low-skill character of jobs in the zone and deviations from basic labor standards.


International Labor Organization, 1998. Note on the Proceedings: Tripartite Meeting of Export Processing Zones-Operating Countries, 28 Sept-2 Oct. Geneva: ILO.

Resolutions adopted, meeting minutes, etc.


Kamel, Rachel and Anya Hoffman (eds), 1998. The Maquiladora Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee.

The Maquiladora Reader explores how grassroots activists are facing one of the most important trends in the globalization of production: the proliferation of maquiladoras, the foreign- (mostlyU.S.-) owned assembly plants along the Mexico-U.S. border. Chapters on Women in the Maquiladoras, Health and Environmental Concerns, Cross-Border Initiatives, NAFTA - And Beyond and the book includes a Resource Directory & Bibliography Available through the American Friends Service Committee.


Kapstein, Ethan, 1996. "Workers and the World Economy," Foreign Affairs , Jul/Aug 1996, 75(4):179-181

Globalization of the economy has resulted in unemployment, economic inequality and other harmful consequences for workers. At the same time governments are discontinuing programs and policies to aid workers, citing the pressing need to reduce deficits and cut spending. Worker discontent will weaken support for international economic policies unless governments develop policies that will renew economic growth and alleviate the problems of working people. Available through ABI/Inform Database of the California Digital Library..


Kapstein, Ethan, 1998. "A global third way: social justice and the world economy." World Policy Journal v15, n4:23.

An alternative strategy to a model of social capitalism is designed to reform the balance between mobile capital and immobile labor through international cooperation that is based on social justice. This balance emphasizes the interrelated problems of the destabilizing characteristic of mobile capital and the erosion of social safety nets. In addition, a third-way strategy represents a bond between globalization and the welfare state and recognizes that prosperity cannot exist without social peace. Available to UC students through ABI/Inform Database of the California Digital Library..


Kidder, Thalia and Mary McGinn, 1995. "In the wake of NAFTA: Transnational Workers' Networks," Social Policy, 25(4): 14-21.

Transnational workers networks (TWN) blossomed during the 1980s and early 1990s. TWNs encourage the reframing of issues and of people's understanding of themselves in relationship to others in the global economy. They are more flexible than hierarchical organizations and their actions are governed by long-term interdependent relationships. Their success depends on the strength of organization. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database..


Kodras, Janet E., Staeheli, Lynn A. and Flint, Colin, 1997. State devolution in America : implications for a diverse society, Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications.

Contents: State restructuring, political opportunism, and capital mobility / Robert W. Lake -- Economic globalization and income inequality in the United States / John O'Loughlin -- Globalization and social restructuring of the American population : geographies of exclusion and vulnerability / Janet, E. Kodras -- Citizenship and the search for community / Lynn A. Staeheli -- Restructuring the state : devolution, privatization, and the geographic, redistribution of power and capacity in governance / Janet E. Kodras -- How federal cutbacks affect the charitable sector / Julian Wolpert -- State restructuring and the importance of "Rights-Talk" / Don Mitchell --NT Fair or foul? : Remaking agricultural policy for the 21st century / Brian Page -- Back to the future in labor relations : from the New Deal to Newt's deal / Andrew Herod -- Responsibility, regulation, and retrenchment: the end of welfare? / Meghan Cope -- Transnationalism, nationalism, and, international migration: the changing role and relevance of the state / Richard Wright -- Education policy and the 104th congress / Fred M., Shelley --Environmental policy and government restructuring / Marvin Waterstone -- Conclusion: Regional collective memories and the ideology of state restructuring / Colin Flint.


Labor Research Association. 1984. Labor confronts the transnationals. New York: International Publishers.

A collection of opening speeches given at the Second International Conference on International Trade Union Unity Against the Transnational Corporations. Contents: "View from Canada"/Emil Bjarnason - "Strategies against the TNCs"/Ernest Demaio - "Britain: Unemployment/Jack Carr - "Canada: Plant Closings"/Sam Gindin - Japan: Militarism/Masuo Kato - USA: Jobs/Gregory Tarpinian - Mexico: Nationalization/Anotonio Gershenson? France: Targeting the TNCs/Claude Billault - Trade Union Unity/Alain Stern - Labor Unity/Dick Barry


Labor Research Review, 1995. "Confronting Global Power: Union Strategies for the World Economy," Chicago, Ill.: Midwest Center for Labor Research.

Contents: Jon Pattee, "Sprint and the Shutdown of La Conexion Familiar: A Union hating multinational finds nowhere to run"/ Terry Davis, "Cross Border Labor Organizing Comes Home: UE and FAT in Mexico and Milwaukee"/ D. Catherine Sanchez, "LRR Focus: Solidarity not Charity"/Kenneth S. Zinn, "Labor Solidarity in the New World Order: The UMWA Program in Colombia"/ Baldemar Velasquez, "Don't waste Time With Politicians, Organize!"/ Lance Compa, "…And the Twain Shall Meet?: A North South controversy over Labor Rights and Trade"/ Helen Gilbert, "Exposing the myths: organizing women around the world"/ Andy Banks, "Privatization Bites"/ Pharis Harvey, "Buying Time or Building a Future: Labor Strategies for a Global Economy."


Labor Rights in China, 1999. No Illusions: Against the Global Cosmetic SA8000. Paper on file with the Henning Center.

Abstract: A report on Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000) a corporate code of conduct by Asia Monitor Resource Center, China Labour Bulletin, Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee and the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. The authors argue that, rather than improve working conditions, SA 8000 disempowers workers and that labor activists need to have a clear idea of how SA8000 is part of the larger picture of neoliberalisation, privatization and globalization.


Lee, Eddy. 1997: "Globalization and labour standards: A review of issues," International Labour Review, Vol. 136 (1997), No. 2, pp. 173-189.

Available through the International Labour Review.


Lee, Eric. 1997. The labour movement and the Internet: the new internationalism. London: Pluto Press.

For a list of Eric Lee's publications, click here. The Labourstart website that he edits also features reviews and a table of contents his book The labour movement and the internet.


Levenson-Estrada, Debroah and Henry Frundt, 1995. "Toward a New Internationalism," NACLA:Report on the Americas 28(5): 16-21.

Abstract: The Guatemalan labor movement is an example of a successful effort to recognize rights in the face of opposition from a powerful foreign corporation. Employees of a Coca- manufacturing franchise in Guatemala were able to gain international support and awareness for their cause when they solicited the aid of the American Friends Service Committee and the Interfaith Committee on Corporate Responsibility. They held Coca-Cola Co. accountable for acts of violence against union members and for attempting to pass the franchise to other owners. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Nissen, Bruce (ed.), 1999. Which Direction for Organized Labor? Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Contents: The U.S. Labor Movement Faces the Twenty First Century/David Moberg Organizing Labor in an Era of Contingent Work and Globalization/E. Weinbaum Community Based Organizing:Transforming Union Organizing Programs from the Bottom Up/B.Nissen and S. Rosen Letting Flowers Bloom under the Setting Sun/W. Rathke Work, Organized Labor and the Catholic Church: Boundaries and Opportunities for Community/Labor Coalitions/J. Russo and B. Corbin The Concerted Voice of Labor and the Suburbanization of Capital:the Fragmentation of the Community Labor Council/P. McLewin Expanded Roles for the Central Labor Council:The View from Atlanta/ Stewart Acuff Defending Workers' Rights in the Global Economy: The CWA Experience/ L. Cohen and S. Early Recent Innovations in the Building Trades/J. Grabelsky and M. Erlich Political Will, Local Union Transformation, and the Organizing Imperative/B. Fletcher Jr. and R. W. Hurd Critical Juncture:Unionism at the Crossroads/M. Eisenscher.


Nissen, Bruce, 1999. "Alliances across the Border: U.S. Labor in the Era of Globalization," WorkingUSA, May/June 1999, pp 43-55.

Abstract: Internationalism has been difficult for U.S. unions for a number of reasons, primarily having to do with the cold war and "business unionism.." In the 1990s, the U.S. labor movement is beginning to cooperate with other countries' labor movements due to globalization, but the depth of this internationalism is open to question as there are only a few successful examples of real international cooperation between U.S. and foreign unions. Many international projects undertaken by unions, such as the Anti-Nafta opposition from the labor movement, are still largely concerned with U.S. jobs instead of broader issues of international cooperation and assistance and international working class consciousness. Nissen closes with eight suggestions for how to build stronger international solidarity in the U.S. labor movement.


Pasture, Patrick, and Verberckmoes, Johan, 1998.Working-class internationalism and the appeal of national identity: historical debates and current perspectives, Oxford ; Berg.

Contents: Working-class internationalism and the appeal of national identity : historical dilemmas and current debates in Western Europe / Patrick Pasture and Johan Verberckmoes -- Social solidarity and national identity in the Basque country : the case of the Nationalist Trade Union ELA/STV / Ludger Mees -- Trade unionism in Catalonia : have unions joined nationalism? / Jacint Jordana and Klaus-Jčurgen Nagel -- The temptations of nationalism : regionalist orientations in the Belgian Christian labour movement / Patrick Pasture -- Trade unions in a divided society : the case of Northern Ireland / Christopher Norton -- Shifting loyalties : Protestant working-class politics in Ulster / Andreas Helle -- Regionalism threatening trade unions in Northern Italy? / Michael Braun -- Joining the European Union : the reactions of Austrian trade unions / Elisabeth Beer and Jčorg Flecker -- Learning to play : the Europeanisation of trade unions / Jelle Visser.


Resource Center of the Americas, various issues. Working Together: Labor Report on the Americas, Minneapolis: Resource Center of the Americas

Working Together is a quarterly newsletter published by the Resource Center of the Americas labor project. The labor project brings together trade unionists and others to build cross-border solidarity and stronger links among the hemisphere's workers and unions. Some issues are available online at Resource Center of the Americas.


Rosen, Fred 1999. "The Underside of NAFTA: a budding crossborder resistance" NACLA Report on the Americas. 32(4):37-40.

Abstract: The complaint mechanism created by NAFTA is promoting cross-border alliances between labor unions. One example is the Dana Alliance made up of unions in different industries in the US, Canada and Mexico. It was formed in Mar 1997 to support members in their organizing and contract negotiation efforts. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Rosen, Fred. 1996. "Teamsters prompt cautious solidarity." NACLA Report on the Americas.

Abstract: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters) opposes the new trucking regulations implemented under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexican trade unionists and independent truckers intend to establish stronger ties with Teamsters, but they do not share some of the latter's sentiments. However, unions on both sides of the US-Mexican border call for strong labor protection under NAFTA. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Rowan, Richard L., Herbert Roof Northrup, and Rae Ann O'Brien. 1980. Multinational union organizations in the manufacturing industries. Philadelphia: Industrial Research Unit, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Includes chapters on the International Metalworkers Federation, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy and General Workers, the International Union of Food and Allied Workers, The International Garment and Leather Workers Federation and the International Federation of Petroleum and Chemical Workers.


Safa, Helen, 1997. "Where the big fish eat the little fish: women's work in the free trade zones," NACLA Report on the Americas, 30(5): 31.

Abstract: This is an article about women working in the export processing zones of the Dominican Republic. The costs of globalization are often carried by women who work in transnationals processing factories. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database..


Sajhau, Jean-Paul, 1997. "Business Ethics in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Industries: Codes of Conduct," Sector Activities Programme Working Paper (Industrial Activities Branch), Geneva: International Labor Office.

A report on the TCF industry's codes of conduct in the context of the industry's continued globalization


Smith, Mitchell, 1998. "Facing the market: institutions, strategies and the fate of organized labor in Germany and Britain." Politics and Society, 26(1): 35-67.

Limits of market power can be looked at in two ways: Across countries research evaluates the extent to which national institutions constrain the force of markets. A sectoral comparison can also be made. Identical sectors face similar market pressures in different advanced industrial states. Thus comparison in this area is used to assess the role of ideas interpretations of market demands, operationalized as union strategies, in the extent to which markets determine political outcomes. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Spalding, Hobart, 1992. "Two Latin American Foreign Policies of the U.S. Labor Movement," Science and Society, 56(4): 421-439.

Abstract: Two opposing foreign policies of the US labor movement have appeared in Latin America in the last 30 years. One is supported by the AFL-CIO foreign policy arm, the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD). The government-funded AIFLD consistently subscribes to US official labor policy. The second policy, which emerged from the rank-and-file of AIFLD, adopts a stand that reflects the interests of all workers and promotes solidarity with Latin American labor movements.


Streeck, Wolfgang, . "The internationalization of industrial relations in Europe: prospects and problems," Politics and Society, 26(4): 429-59.

Abstract: The increasing internationalization of European industrial relations has social consequences. Selective centralization may force countries to match supply and demand by making the latter more flexible, and national economic systems will be increasingly exposed to regime competition. The strongest probability is for supranational institutions of relations between capital and labor will become extensions of national institutions. Available to UC Students through the California Digital Library's Magazines and Journal Articles Database.


Swepton, L. 1994. "The future of ILO standards." Monthly Labor Review, 117(9): 16-23.

ILO standards have formed the basis for much social and labor legislation enacted in this century. However, to ensure a role for the organization in the future, more visibility, clear goals, reexamination, and consolidation are essential. This article examines how ILO standards must evolve to address different visions of organization and its aim among ILO constituents. Available in PDF format from the The Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Labor Review Online


Waterman, Peter, 1992. International labour communication by computer: the fifth international?, (working paper), The Hague, The Netherlands : Institute of Social Studies.

Available through the Institute of Social Studies.


Waterman, Peter, 1993. Globalization, civil society, solidarity: the politics and ethics of a world both real and universal, (working paper) The Hague, Netherlands : Publications Office, Institute of Social Studies

Available through the Institute of Social Studies.


Waterman, Peter, 1996. The newest international labour studies: fit for the new world order?, (working paper), The Hague, Netherlands : Publications Office, Institute of Social Studies.

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Willatt, Norris. 1974. Multinational unions: a study. London: Financial Times.

This study reports on likely direction of international unions in the late 1970s/1980s and provides a history and analysis of the (formerly) 16 international trade secretariats.


Windmuller, John P. 1995. "International Trade Secretariats: The Industrial Trade Union Internationals," Foreign Labor Trends, 95-4, Washington, US Department of Labor.

A report on International Trade Secretariats prepared by the author for the U.S. Department of Labor providing an overview of their history, structure, governance and recent trends.