Global restructuring, labour, and the challenges for transnational solidarity / edited by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-252) and index.

1. Globalisation and the new challenges for transnational solidarity: an Introduction / Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg -- 2. Trade unions, global competition and options for solidarity / Richard Hyman -- 3. East-West European Labour Transnationalism(s): Rivalry or Joint Mobilisation? / Magdalena Bernaciak -- 4. Detours of Solidarity: Experiences from Ericsson in Colombia / Jonas Sjölander -- 5. Building Rank and File Activism: A Study of the Global Action Day Campaign in the History of the International Transport Workers{u2019} Federation / Mac Urata -- 6. Informal work and transnational organizing / Ilda Lindell -- 7. What Does Transnational Labour Organizing and Solidarity Mean for Sri Lankan Free Trade Zone Women Workers? / Samanthi Gunawardana -- 8. Victory through solidarity? The story of a women workers{u2019} strike in Turkey{u2019}s Antalya Free Zone / Tore Fougner and Ayça Kurtoğlu -- 9. Cross-border Wage Struggles in the Global Garment Industry: The campaign for an Asia Floor Wage / Jeroen Merk -- 10. Challenging privatisation and access to health care services: the role of trade unions / Jane Lethbridge -- 11. Thinking through transnational solidarity: The case of SINTREAMCALI in Colombia / Mario Novelli -- 12. How new social alliances changed politics in Norway / Asbjørn Wahl -- 13. Trade union and social movement co-operation in the defence of the European public sector(and a postscriptum with Jan Willem Goudriaan) / Andreas Bieler -- 14. Making connections: Transnational solidarity through the internet / Bruce Robinson -- 15. Varieties of solidarity: an analysis of cases of worker action across borders / Ingemar Lindberg -- 16. Conclusions: A variable landscape of emerging transnational solidarities / Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg.

This is an examination of the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity in a period of global restructuring. The text brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity.