Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms.

Introduction: Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms:
Beyond the Fragments? Peter Waterman and Jane Wills.

1. New Developments in Trade Union Internationalism:.

Trade Union Internationalism in the Age of Seattle: Peter
Waterman.

Southern Unionism and the New Labour Internationalism: Rob
Lambert and Eddie Webster.

Rethinking the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
and its Inter-American Regional Organization: Kjeld Jakobsen.

Transnational Capital, Urban Globalisation and Cross-Border
Solidarity: The Case of the South African Municipal Workers: Franco
Barchiesi.

Labor Internationalism and the Contradictions of Globalization:
Or, Why the Local is Sometimes Still Important in a Global Economy:
Andrew Herod.

2. New Issues for Labour Internationalism:.

World Trade and Worker's Rights: In Search of an
Internationalist Position: Rohini Hensman.

NAFTA's Labor Side Agreement and International Labor Solidarity:
Lance Compa.

European Integration and Industrial Relations: A Case of
Variable Geometry? Richard Hyman.

Uneven Geographies of Capital and Labour: The Lessons of
European Works Councils: Jane Wills.

Women Workers and the Promise of Ethical Trade in the Globalised
Garment Industry: A Serious Beginning? Angela Hale and Linda
Shaw.

Propositions on Trade Unions and Informal Employment in Times of
Globalisation, Dan Gallin.

A Manifesto Against Femicide: Melissa Wright.

Union Responses to Mass Immigration: The Case of Miami, USA:
Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier.

Index.

It's a post-Seattle world out there, and long-familiar
geographical notions are reeling not only under the impact of
capitalist globalization, but of myriad new linkages among
globally-connected working people and communities. For cutting edge
views of what all this means for the labor movement, read Place,
Space and the New Labour Internationalisms. - Jeremy
Brecher co-author of Globalisation from Below: The Power of
Solidarity (Southend Press, Boston)

This is the first major interpretation of the future of labour
internationalism in the wake of the Seattle protests. Waterman and
Wills are to be congratulated for producing stimulating, original
and forward-looking account. - Robin Cohen, Dean of
Humanities, University of Cape Town

For those who wish to understand the potential strength and
perils of labor in the neoliberal globalized world, Place, Space
and the New Labour Internationalisms is essential reading. Waterman
and Wills review and anticipate key battles that the labor movement
will ineluctably face as corporate domination is challenged by the
world-side movement for social justice. - Immanuel
Ness, editor of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and
Society

Peter Waterman (London, 1936) is the author of
Globalisation, Social Movements and the New
Internationalisms (Cassell, London, 1998), and co-editor, with
Ronaldo Munck of Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation:
Alternative Union Models in the New World Order (Macmillan,
London, 1999). He has published widely in academic and political
journals, in English and Spanish. Since 1994 he has had visiting
positions or fellowships at universities in the UK, US, South
Africa and Mexico. He worked for over a quarter century within the
labour studies and politics of alternative development strategies
programmes of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. He took
early retirement in 1998. His current interests are: global
solidarity movements, in political, communicational, and cultural
terms; the life histories of internationalists - and his
long-suffering Global Solidarity website.

Jane Wills is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary,
University of London. She is co-author of Union Retreat and the
Regions: the shrinking landscape of organised labour (Jessica
Kingsley, London, 1996), Dissident Geographies: an introduction
to radical ideas and practice (Prentice Hall, London, 2000) and
co-editor of Geographies of Economies (Arnold, London,
1997). She has long-term political and research interests in
orgasnised labour and has undertaken ESRC-funded research into
European Works Councils, union renewal and partnership
agreements.

P. Waterman, Global Solidarity Dialogue; J. Wills, Queen Mary, University of London