Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles

Abstract

1. The Labor Movement in a New Globalized Environment: An Introduction, Bruce Nissen Part I: Cross-Border Organizing and Solidarity 2. Free Trade and Worker Solidarity in the North American Auto Industry, Steve Babson 3. Four Models of Cross-Border Maquila Organizing, Henry Frundt 4. Union Global Alliances at Multinational Corporations: A Case Study of the Ameritech Alliance, Jeff Rechenbach and Larry Cohen Part II: Responding to Immigration 5. New Workers, New Labor, and the New Los Angeles, Ruth Milkman 6. Unions and Immigrants in South Florida: A Comparison, Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier Part III: Internal Transformation: Moving Toward Social Movement Unionism? 7. The Strategic Challenge of Organizing Manufacturing Workers in Global/Flexible Capitalism, Fernando Gapasin and Edna Bonacich 8. Does Neoliberal Restructuring Promote Movement Unionism? U.S. Developments in Comparative Perspective, Ian Robinson 9. Citizenship Movement Unionism: For the Defense of Local Communities in the Global Age, Paul Johnston 10. Concluding Thoughts: Internal Transformation? Bruce Nissen