Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization

Edited by Kim Scipes

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Description

Since the 1980s, the world’s working class has been under continual assault by the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism. In response, new labor movements have emerged across the Global Southfrom Brazil and South Africa to Indonesia and Pakistan.

Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization is a call for international solidarity to resist the assaults on labor’s power. This collection of essays by international labor activists and academics examines models of worker solidarity, different forms of labor organizations, and those models’ and organizations’ relationships to social movements and civil society.

Author Bios

Dr. Kim Scipes is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology (retired, with Honors) and taught on the Westville Campus of Purdue University Northwest from 2004 to 2022 and the Hammond campus from 2020 to 2022, following different careers as a printing press operator (with over nine years in the printing trades), high school teacher, web publisher and secretary. He also served four years in the US Marine Corps (1969-73), attaining the rank of Sergeant and an Honorable Discharge. While in the Marine Corps, fortunately staying in the United States during his time in the Marines, he became consciously political and “turned around” while on active duty.

He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree from Florida State University (1975), his Master’s from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands (1991) and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2003.

He specializes in labor, both domestically and around the world and is currently a member of the National Writers Union, UAW/AFL-CIO. He has been opening night and plenary speaker at global conferences in Canada, Germany, South Africa and Vietnam. Dr. Scipes has published widely in the United States and in 11 different countries around the world: he has published over 280 articles and book reviews for peer-reviewed, specialty and activist publications, in addition to four books. Since April 13, 2024, he has included major public presentations in his count. (See publications.) His book about the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines in on-line for free in its entirety: the link is below the books on his publications page.

He taught a range of interesting courses, taking a global approach and from a macro sociological perspective. Dr. Scipes has been engaged professionally at the global, national and local levels.

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ISBN: 9781608465996

Publication date: May 17, 2016

Reviews

"An insightful and edifying discourse on global labor issues, Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization shines both a practical and theoretical light on how labor movements are unifying workers across the globe to create a more independent economy loosening itself from corporate restraints. Even as the United States elects anti-union, anti-worker candidates, countries formerly paying slave wages like the Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines are developing unions and worker centers. Building Global Labor Solidarity is a must read for labor educations, activists, union organizers and anyone interested in the global labor market and how those markets can be transformed."
Karen Ford, Former 3rd Vice President, National Writers Union UAW 1981 and author of, Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman

"Kim Scipes has toiled long and hard to bring a thoughtful analysis of true international solidarity to American workers. He has exposed the duplicity of many in the US labor bureaucracy who have sided with corporate American internationally in the betrayal of workers struggles. This anthology of some of the finest thinkers on this topic is a must read."
Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)

"Kim Scipes has lived and breathed global labor solidarity for decades, and in this collection he presents essays from some of the most incisive thinkers he has met along the way. From multifaceted standpoints of solidarity, they move beyond critiques of the barriers we face to challenge us to achieve a world of justice, health and planetary survival."
Todd Jailer, Workers' Guide to Health and Safety

"Were organizers to begin studying the issues facing the working class today, each of these essays would be worth a major investment in time and energy"
George N. Schmidt, Substance News
"An insightful and edifying discourse on global labor issues, Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization shines both a practical and theoretical light on how labor movements are unifying workers across the globe to create a more independent economy loosening itself from corporate restraints. Even as the United States elects anti-union, anti-worker candidates, countries formerly paying slave wages like the Bangladesh, Mexico and the Philippines are developing unions and worker centers. Building Global Labor Solidarity is a must read for labor educations, activists, union organizers and anyone interested in the global labor market and how those markets can be transformed."
—Karen Ford, Former 3rd Vice President, National Writers Union UAW 1981 and author of, Thoughts of a Fried Chicken Watermelon Woman

"Kim Scipes has toiled long and hard to bring a thoughtful analysis of true international solidarity to American workers. He has exposed the duplicity of many in the US labor bureaucracy who have sided with corporate American internationally in the betrayal of workers struggles. This anthology of some of the finest thinkers on this topic is a must read."
—Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)

"Kim Scipes has lived and breathed global labor solidarity for decades, and in this collection he presents essays from some of the most incisive thinkers he has met along the way. From multifaceted standpoints of solidarity, they move beyond critiques of the barriers we face to challenge us to achieve a world of justice, health and planetary survival."
—Todd Jailer, Workers' Guide to Health and Safety

"Were organizers to begin studying the issues facing the working class today, each of these essays would be worth a major investment in time and energy"
—George N. Schmidt, Substance News

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