Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity (Hardcover)

Part I: Introduction and Conceptual Considerations  1. Globalisation and the new challenges for transnational solidarity: an Introduction Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg  2. Trade unions, global competition and options for solidarity Richard Hyman  Part II: Trade union solidarity across borders?  3. West-East European Labour Transnationalism(s): Rivalry or Joint Mobilisation? Magdalena Bernaciak  4. Detours of Solidarity: Experiences from Ericsson in Colombia Jonas Sjolander  5. Building Rank and File Activism: A Study of the Global Action Day Campaign in the History of the International Transport Workers’ Federation  Mac Urata   Part III: Transnational solidarity involving trade unions and social movements 6. Informal work and transnational organizing  Ilda Lindell 7. What Does Transnational Labour Organizing and Solidarity Mean for Sri Lankan Free Trade Zone Women Workers? Samanthi Gunawardana 8. Victory through solidarity? The story of a women workers’ strike in Turkey’s Antalya Free Zone Tore Fougner and Ayca Kurto?lu 9. Cross-border Wage Struggles in the Global Garment Industry: The campaign for an Asia Floor Wage Jeroen Merk Part IV: Transnational solidarity in defence of the public sector 10. Challenging privatisation and access to health care services: the role of trade unions Jane Lethbridge 11. Thinking through transnational solidarity: The case of SINTREAMCALI in Colombia Mario Novelli Part V: Trade union social movement co-operation in the developed world 12. How new social alliances changed politics in Norway Asbjørn Wahl  13. Trade union and social movement co-operation in the defence of the European public sector(and a postscriptum with Jan Willem Goudriaan) Andreas Bieler Part VI: What strategies towards transnational solidarity? 14. Making connections: Transnational solidarity through the internet Bruce Robinson 15. Varieties of solidarity: an analysis of cases of worker action across borders Ingemar Lindberg 16. Conclusions: A variable landscape of emerging transnational solidarities Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg