Session: Making transnational networks more effective vehicles for North-South and South-South labor solidarity (The Second ISA Forum of Sociology (August 1-4, 2012))

537 Making transnational networks more effective vehicles for North-South and South-South labor solidarity

Friday, August 3, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

OB 29 (Faculty of Economics)

RC44 Labor Movements (host committee)

Session Organizer:

Cesar RODRIGUEZ, Universidade de los Andes, Colombia

Chair:

Robert O'BRIEN, McMaster University, Canada

537.1

Unpacking transnational activist networks: An analysis of anti-sweatshop campaigns in the U.S.-Caribbean basin apparel industry (1990-2008) (Oral Presentation)
Cesar RODRIGUEZ, Universidade de los Andes, Colombia

537.2

Knowledge production and counter-expertise in transnational anti-sweatshop networks (Oral Presentation)
Marcos ANCELOVICI, McGill University, Canada; Alex MOCHNACKI, McGill University, Canada

537.3

Global unions, local power: Labor transnationalism from North America to the global south
Jamie MCCALLUM, Middlebury College, USA

537.4

Transnational networks and organizing in the informal sector: Waste pickers respond to challenges and opportunities of globalization (Oral Presentation)
Manuel ROSALDO, University of California at Berkeley , USA

537.5

Transnational solidarity in global supply chains: Where are the ‘pinch points' and what are the levers for global networks to improve labour conditions? (Oral Presentation)
Pamela ROBINSON, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; Helen RAINBIRD, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

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