Abstract
Labor activists have long-been encouraging workers to build international labor solidarity to empower each other and to improve all workers’ lives and well-being going back to before the First International. This tradition, while dismembered by the Cold War between the US and the UK on one hand and the Soviet Union on the other, has been resuscitated since the 1970s, with efforts by activists, scholars, and some workers to build cross-national border solidarity across the globe for workers, an effort that is growing.
This paper details these efforts, dividing the work between 1978-2011 and 2011 to today, listing some of the most important efforts of each period, and supporting the claim of increased interest in building global labor solidarity. This is important because of labor’s potential leadership in the struggle against climate change and environmental destruction, which is a threat to the survival of all species.
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Scipes, Kim
(2024)
"Building Global Labor Solidarity: Where We Are Today (Early 2024),"
Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 12:
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