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Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis

Bieler, Andreas

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The global financial crisis as part of globalisation has put labour movements under pressure around the world. This poses yet again the question of transnational solidarity. As a result of uneven and combined development, individual labour movements find themselves in rather different positions with contradictory interests. The purpose of this article is to assess conceptually possible labour strategies towards transnational solidarity against the background of the structuring conditions within the global economy.

The article is organised into two parts. First, the structuring conditions of capitalism will be charted including processes of uneven and combined development. This will provide the basis for the second step of conceptualising the potential agency of labour and its possibilities to establish relationships of transnational solidarity despite the unevenness of global development. In this discussion the definition of ‘labour’ itself will be problematized and concepts of ‘labour aristocracy’ and ‘false consciousness’ critically examined.

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Bieler, A. (2014). Transnational labour solidarity in (the) crisis. Global Labour Journal, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v5i2.1154

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 31, 2014
Publication Date May 1, 2014
Deposit Date Jul 20, 2016
Publicly Available Date Jul 20, 2016
Journal Global Labour Journal
Electronic ISSN 1918-6711
Publisher McMaster University
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 2
DOI https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v5i2.1154
Keywords Class agency, class struggle, false consciousness, labour aristocracy, structuring conditions of global
capitalism
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/725997
Publisher URL https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/article/view/1154
Contract Date Jul 20, 2016

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