Globalization from Below

Labor Activists Challenging the AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Program

Bibliographic Data

ID2369976
AuthorsKim Scipes (0000-0001-9712-3995, Purdue University, USA, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume38
Issue2
Pages303-323
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920511399938
OpenAlexW2025510773
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

Building on Alberto Melucci's argument that to understand a social movement, we must look at the period before emergence as a social movement, this article examines labor activists' efforts to reform the foreign policy program of the AFL-CIO: has sufficient groundwork been laid that a serious possibility of an alternative globalization movement can emerge from within US Labor? This article discusses general efforts to challenge the AFL-CIO's foreign policy program. It examines the work of US Labor Against the War (USLAW) since its founding in 2003, the California State AFL-CIO's formal repudiation of the AFL-CIO foreign policy program in 2004, and then efforts at the 2005 National AFL-CIO Convention to keep California's 'Build Unity and Trust With Workers Worldwide' resolution from being fairly discussed at the Convention. Based on evidence presented, it then evaluates whether there is an alternative globalization movement emerging within US Labor or not

Convention · Foreign policy · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration

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