Review article: reflections on international labour studies in the UK

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Author(s): Peter Waterman

Publication date (Print): Spring 2008

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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Reflecting personally on the contribution of the UK to international labour studies over the past forty years and his own role in this history, Peter Waterman reviews some recent publications and websites from both inside and outside the official trade union movement. These are:

Tony Pilch (ed) Trades Unions and Globalisation, London: Smith Institute. 86 pp. ISBN 1-905370-14-8

Sheila Cohen, Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power and How to Get it Back, London: Pluto, 248 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-7453-1529-4 (pb)

Ronaldo Munck, 2006. Globalisation and Contestation: The Great Counter-Movement, London: Routledge. 176 pp. ISBN-10 0415376564

Angela Hale and Jane Wills (eds). Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers’ Perspective, Oxford: Blackwell, 288 pp. ISBN-10: 1405126388

Paul Mason, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global, London: Harvill Secker. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-436-20615-3

NewUnionism http://www.newunionism.net/

Union Ideas Network http://www.uin.org.uk/

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob

Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Spring 2008

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Pages: 180-200

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[1] Agustín, L. (2007) Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry , London: Zed Asia Monitor Resource Centre Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.amrc.org.hk/about.htm

[2] Caruso, G. (2007) ‘Open Spaces and Hegemonic Practices in Global Civil Society: The World Social Forum 2004’. Draft PhD Thesis. Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

[3] Cradden, C & P. Hall-Jones. (2005) ‘Trade Union Reform - Change is the only Constant’ Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http:http//www.world-psi.org/TemplateEn.cfm?Section=Focus_magazine&CONTENTID=7253&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm

[4] Dinerstein, A. (2003) ‘A Silent Revolution: The Unemployed Workers Movement in Argentina’, Labour Capital & Society/Travail, Capital & Societe , Vol. 34, No. 2:166–183

[5] Dwyer-Witheford, N. (2007) ‘Commonism’, Turbulence: Ideas for Movement , No. 1 Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http:http//turbulence.org.uk/turb_june2007.html

[6] Ferus-Comelo, A. (2006) ‘Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective. Book Review: Research in Action for Workers' Rights: Threads of Labour’, European Journal of Women's Studies , Vol. 13:381–4. Accessed July 1, 2007 from http://www.ejw.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/13/4/381.pdf

[7] Germanotta, P. (2007a) ‘On ILO Principles and Social Justice’, International Union Rights , Vol. 14, No. 1:12–12

[8] Germanotta, P. (2007b) ‘ILO “Principles” on Freedom of Association: Prospects for Proletarian Power Beyond the State’, WorkingUSA , Vol. 10, June:163–74

[9] Global Labor Strategies. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.laborstrategies.blogs.com/

[10] Godio, J. (2004) El MERCOSUR, los trabajadores y el ALCA (MERCOSUR, the Workers and ALCA) . Buenos Aires: Biblos

[11] Gobin, C. (1997) ‘Taming the Unions: The Mirage of a Social Europe’, Le Monde Diplomatique , Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://mondediplo.com/1997/11/europe

[12] Gobin, C. (Pending) ‘La Confederation Europeenne Des Syndicats (CES) et le developpement du marché interieur. Vers une reconnaissance de l'euro-syndicalisme en trompe-l'œil et une devalorisation de la norme sociale?’. GRAID, Institut de Sociologie, FNRS and Université libre de Bruxelles

[13] Gobin, C & D. Mezzi. (2007) ‘La CES, un œil sur l'Europe’ (The ETUC, An Eye on Europe), Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article6289#top

[14] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World , New York: Monthly Review and London: Merlin

[15] International Association of Labour History Institutions (2007) Conference on Transnational Networks of Labour Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.ith.or.at/konf_e/zeitpl_2007_e.htm

[16] International Union Rights/International Centre for Union Rights. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.ictur.org

[17] International Union Rights (2005) ‘Sex Workers Organising’, International Union Rights , (Special Issue), Vol. 12, No. 4:2–13.

[18] International Union of Sexworkers. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.iusw.org/start/index.html

[19] Kester, G. (2007) Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy in Africa , Aldershot: Ashgate

[20] Kloosterboer, D. (2007) Innovative trade union strategies: Successful examples of how trade unions meet the challenges of the 21st century , Amsterdam: Federatie Nederlandse Vakbonden:128 Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.fnv.nl/helpjezelf/lokaal/achtergrond/publicaties/vakbondsvernieuwing_rapport.asp

[21] Lorwin, L. (1929) Labor and Internationalism , London: Allen and Unwin

[22] Mariátegui, J. (1986/1923–4) ‘Internationalism and Nationalism’, Newsletter of International Labour Studies (The Hague), Nos. 30–31:3–8

[23] Mather, C. (2004) Garment Industry Supply Chains: A Resource for Worker Education and Solidarity . Manchester: Women Working Worldwide:80 Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww/pdfs/www_education_pack.pdf

[24] Moody, K. (1997) ‘Towards an International Social-Movement Unionism’, New Left Review . No. 225:52–72

[25] Munck, R. (2002) Labour and Globalisation: A New Great Transformation? , London: Zed Books

[26] Munck, R. (2003) Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects , Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Networked Politics. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.networked-politics.info/index.php/Main_Page

[27] Networked Politics. (2007) Networked Politics: Basic Reader. Rethinking Political Organisation in an Age of Movements and Networks , Berlin Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://networked-politics.info/index.php/Main_Page:26

[28] Ness, I. (2005) Immigrants, Unions, and the New US Labor Market . Philadelphia: Temple University Press New Labor Forum. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.newlaborforum.org

[29] No Border Network. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.noborder.org/news_index.php Prol-Position. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.prol-position.net/

[30] Ross, A (ed). (1997) No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers , London and New York: Verso

[31] Salman, T. (2006) ‘Book Review: Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour’, Anthropological Theory , Vol. 6, No. 2:259–261

[32] Santos, B. (2006) ‘De lo posmoderno a lo poscolonial y más allá de ambos' (From the Postmodern to the Postcolonial and Beyond Both), in Conocer desde el Sur: Para una cultura política emancipatoria , Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

[33] Stillo, M. (1998–9) Antonio Gramsci , Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-gram.htm Streetnet International. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.streetnet.org.za/english/page10.htm. The Big Sell-Out. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.thebigsellout.org/bongani.html

[34] Trott, B. (2005) ‘Gleneagles, Activism and Ordinary Rebelliousness’, in David Harvie et al. Shut Them Down! The G8, Gleneagles 2005, and the Movement of Movements . Also: Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.shutthemdown.org/

[35] Wahl, A. (2004) ‘European Labour: the Ideological Legacy of the Social Pact’, Monthly Review , Vol. 55, No. 8. Accessed on July 1, 2007 from http://www.monthlyreview.org/0104wahl.htm

[36] Waterman, P. (1989) ‘“New Realism” at ILR?’, International Labour Reports , No. 31:26–27

[37] Waterman, P. (1998) ‘The Second Coming of Proletarian Internationalism? A Review of Recent Resources’, European Journal of Industrial Relations , Vol.4, No.3:349–77