Table of Contents:
  • The labor movement in a new globalized environment: an introduction / Bruce Nissen
  • Free trade and worker solidarity in the North American auto industry / Steve Babson
  • Four models of cross-border Maquila organizing / Henry J. Frundt
  • Union global alliances at multinational corporations: a case study of the Ameritech Alliance / Jeff Rechenbach and Larry Cohen
  • New workers, new labor, and the new Los Angeles / Ruth Milkman
  • Unions and immigrants in South Florida: a comparison / Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier
  • The strategic challenge of organizing manufacturing workers in global/flexible capitalism / Fernando Gapasin and Edna Bonacich
  • Does neoliberal restructuring promote social movement unionism? U.S. developments in comparative perspective / Ian Robinson
  • Citizenship movement unionism: for the defense of local communities in the global age / Paul Johnston
  • Concluding thoughts: internal transformation? / Bruce Nissen.