Advocacy and Activism

Transnational Labor Activism Bibliography

This is a bibliography of articles and books dealing with transnational labor activism.  It is divided into categories by topic.  Click on the category heading to access summaries of the articles and books listed.  Also note that some articles appear in more than one category.  To access a version of this bibliography searchable by keyword, email Dana Hill at dmhill@maxwell.syr.edu. 

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Categories:
               ·Child Labor
           ·Corporate Reform
           ·Global Backlash
           ·Immigration
           ·NGOs
           ·Social Movement Theory
           ·Transnational Activism
           ·Unions
           ·Women’s Issues

Child Labor
Basu, K. (1999). Child labor: Cause, consequence, and cure, with remarks on international labor standards. Journal of Economic Literature, 37(3), 1083

Basu, K., & Van, P. H. (1998). The economics of child labor. The American Economic Review, 88(3), 412-427.

Bourdillon, M. (2006). Children and work: A review of current literature and debates. Development and Change,  37(6), 1201

Chowdhry, G., & Beeman, M. (2001). Challenging child labor: Transnational activism and India's carpet industry. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 575(Children's Rights), 158-175.

Dewees, A., & Klees, S. J. (1995). Social movements and the transformation of national policy: Street and working children in Brazil. Comparative Education Review, 39(1, Special Issue on Education in Latin America), 76-100.

Ensalaco, M., & Majka, L. C. (2005). Children's human rights : Progress and challenges for children worldwide. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.

Fernando, J. L. (2001). Children's rights. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Grootaert, C., & Kanbur, R. (1995). Child labour: An economic perspective. International Labour Review, 134(2), 187.

Seidman, G. W. (2007). Beyond the boycott: Labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Simelane, H. (1998). Landlords, the state, and child labor in colonial swaziland, 1914-1947. The International journal of African historical studies, 31(3), 571.

Smith, A. B. (2000). Advocating for children : International perspectives on children's rights. Dunedin, N.Z: University of Otago Press.

Swinnerton, K. A., & Rogers, C. A. (1999). The economics of child labor: Comment. The American Economic Review, 89(5), 1382-1385.

Thorne, B. (March 1987). Re-visioning women and social change: Where are the children? Gender and Society, 1(1), 85-109.

Corporate Reform
Chowdhry, G., & Beeman, M. (2001). Challenging child labor: Transnational activism and India's carpet industry. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 575(Children's Rights), 158-175.

Liubicic, R. J. (1998). Corporate codes of conduct and product labeling schemes: The limits and possibilities of promoting international labor rights through private initiatives. Law and Policy in International Business, 30(111), 112.

Seidman, G. W. (2007). Beyond the boycott: Labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Seidman, G. W. (March 2003). Monitoring multinationals: Lessons from the anti-apartheid era. Politics & Society, 31(1), 1-26.

Global Backlash
Ansley, F. (2001). Inclusive boundaries and other (im)possible paths toward community development in a global world. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 150(1), 353-417.

Ayres, J. M. (1998). Defying conventional wisdom: Political movements and popular contention against north american free trade. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.

Edmé, D. R. Continental transnational activism and women workers' networks within NAFTA. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 4(2).

Liubicic, R. J. (1998). Corporate codes of conduct and product labeling schemes: The limits and possibilities of promoting international labor rights through private initiatives. Law and Policy in International Business, 30(111), 112.

Schulz, M. S. (1998). Collective action across borders: Opportunity structures, network capacities, and communicative praxis in the age of advanced globalization. Sociological Perspectives, 41(3), 587-616.

Immigration
Compa, L. (2000). Unfair advantage: Workers' freedom of association in the united states under international human rights standards. New York, N.Y: Human Rights Watch.

Das Gupta, M. (2006). Unruly immigrants : Rights, activism, and transnational south asian politics in the united states. Durham: Duke University Press.
Law, L. (2003). Transnational Cyberpublics: New Political Spaces for Labour Migrants in Asia. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26(2), 234

Massey, D. S. (1993). Theories of international migration: A review and appraisal. Population and Development Review, 19(3), 431-466.

Swider, S. (2006). Working women of the world unite? Labor organizing and transnational gender solidarity among domestic workers in Hong Kong. In M. M. Ferree, & A. M. Tripp (Eds.), Global feminism: Transnational women's activism, organizing, and human rights (pp. 110-140)

NGOs
Armbruster-Sandoval, R. (2003). Globalization and transnational labor organizing: The Honduran maquiladora industry and the Kimi campaign. Social Science History, 27(4), 551-576.

Brysk, A. (1993). From above and below: Social movements, the international system, human rights in Argentina. Comparative Political Studies, 26, 259-286.

Chowdhry, G., & Beeman, M. (2001). Challenging child labor: Transnational activism and India's carpet industry. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 575(Children's Rights), 158-175.

Law, L. (2003). Transnational cyberpublics: New political spaces for labour migrants in Asia. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26(2), 234

Seidman, G. W. (2007). Beyond the boycott: Labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Social Movement Theory
Ansley, F. (2001). Inclusive boundaries and other (im)possible paths toward community development in a global world. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 150(1), 353-417.

Edelman, M. (2001). SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Changing paradigms and forms of politics. Annual Review of Anthropology, 30(1), 285-317.

Frundt, H. J. (2005). Movement theory and international labor solidarity. Labor Studies Journal, 30(2), 19.

Ganz, M. (January 2000). Resources and resourcefulness: Strategic capacity in the unionization of california agriculture, 1959–1966. American Journal of Sociology, 105(4), 1003-1062.

Schulz, M. S. (1998). Collective action across borders: Opportunity structures, network capacities, and communicative praxis in the age of advanced globalization. Sociological Perspectives, 41(3), 587-616.

Transnational Activism
Armbruster-Sandoval, R. (2003). Globalization and transnational labor organizing: The Honduran maquiladora industry and the Kimi campaign. Social Science History, 27(4), 551-576.

Ayres, J. M. (1998). Defying conventional wisdom : Political movements and popular contention against north american free trade. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.

Brysk, A. (1993). From above and below: Social movements, the international system, human rights in argentina. Comparative Political Studies, 26, 259-286.

Caraway, T. L. (2006). Political openness and transnational activism: Comparative insights from labor activism. Politics & Society, 34(2), 277-304.

Compa, L. (2001). NAFTA's labor side agreement and international labor solidarity. Antipode, 33(3), 451-467.

Dewees, A., & Klees, S. J. (1995). Social movements and the transformation of national policy: Street and working children in Brazil. Comparative Education Review, 39(1, Special Issue on Education in Latin America), 76-100.

Dominguez R., E. (2002). Continental transnational activism and women workers' networks within NAFTA. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 4(2), 216-239.

Kay, T. (2005). Labor transnationalism and global governance: The impact of NAFTA on transnational labor relationships in North America. The American Journal of Sociology, 111(3), 715-756.

Law, L. (2003). Transnational cyberpublics: New political spaces for labour migrants in Asia. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26(2), 234.

McKay, S. (2005). The squeaky wheel's dilemma: New forms of labor organizing in the philippines. Labor Studies Journal, 30(4), 41.

Seidman, G. W. (2007). Beyond the boycott: Labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Stillerman, J. (2003). Transnational activist networks and the emergence of labor internationalism in the NAFTA countries. Social Science History, 27(4), 577.

Unions
Alexander, R., & Gilmore, P. (1994). The emergence of cross-border labor solidarity. NACLA Report on the Americas, 28(1), 42.

Armbruster-Sandoval, R. (2003). Globalization and transnational labor organizing: The honduran maquiladora industry and the kimi campaign. Social Science History, 27(4), 551-576.

Clawson, D., & Clawson, M. A. (1999). What has happened to the US labor movement? union decline and renewal. Annual Review of Sociology, 25(1), 95

Compa, L. (2000). Unfair advantage : Workers' freedom of association in the united states under international human rights standards. New York, N.Y: Human Rights Watch.

Compa, L. (2001). NAFTA's labor side agreement and international labor solidarity. Antipode, 33(3), 451-467.

Durrenberger, E. P. (2007). The anthropology of organized labor in the united states. Annual Review of Anthropology, 36(1), 73-88.

Ganz, M. (January 2000). Resources and resourcefulness: Strategic capacity in the unionization of california agriculture, 1959–1966. American Journal of Sociology, 105(4), 1003-1062.

Gapasin, F. (1998). The intersection of labor movement activism and sociology. Contemporary Sociology, 27(2), 133-136.

Gordan M. E., Turner L. (Eds.), Transnational cooperation among labor unions (2000). Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press.

Herod, A. (1995). The practice of international labor solidarity and the geography of the global economy. Economic Geography, 71(4), 341-363.

Lauck, W. J. (1919). The international labor situation. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 83(International Economics), 186-201.

Lorwin, L. L. (1953). The international labor movement: History, policies, outlook (1st ed.). New York: Harper.

McKay, S. (2005). The squeaky wheel's dilemma: New forms of labor organizing in the Philippines. Labor Studies Journal, 30(4), 41.

Munck, R., & Waterman, P. (1999). Labour worldwide in the era of globalization : Alternative union models in the new world order. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Myconos, G. (2005). The globalizations of organized labour: 1945-2005. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Reynolds, J. K. (2003). Revitalizing movement. Monthly Labor Review, 126(3), 29.

Sturmthal, A. F., & Scoville, J. G. (1973). The international labor movement in transition; essays on africa, asia, europe, and south america. Urbana, University: of Illinois Press.

Swider, S. (2006). Working women of the world unite? labor organizing and transnational gender solidarity among domestic workers in hong kong. In M. M. Ferree, & A. M. Tripp (Eds.), Global feminism: Transnational women's activism, organizing, and human rights (pp. 110-140)

Tait, V. (2005). Poor workers' unions: Rebuilding labor from below (1st ed.). Cambridge, Mass: South end Press.

Turner, L., Katz, H. C., & Hurd, R. W. (2001). Rekindling the movement: Labor's quest for relevance in the twenty-first century. Ithaca: ILR Press.
Voss, K. (2000). Breaking the iron law of oligarchy: Union revitalization in the american labor movement. The American Journal of Sociology, 106(2), 303.

Wills, J. (1998). Taking on the CosmoCorps? Experiments in transnational labor organization. Economic Geography, 74(2).

Women’s Issues
Chowdhury, R., & Benford, R. “Outsiders” and identity reconstruction in the sex workers’ movement in bagladesh. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA.

Dominguez R., E. (2002). Continental transnational activism and women workers' networks within NAFTA. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 4(2), 216-239.

Edmé, D. R. Continental transnational activism and women workers' networks within NAFTA. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 4(2).

Ferree, M. M., & Tripp, A. M. (2006). Global feminism : Transnational women's activism, organizing, and human rights. New York: New York University Press.

Gills, D. S., & Piper, N. (2002). Women and work in globalising Asia. London ; New York: Routledge.

Harley, S. (2007). Women's labor in the global economy: Speaking in multiple voices. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press.

Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon. (2001). Sweatshop warriors: Immigrant women workers take on the global factory. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press.

Mills, M. B. (2005). From nimble fingers to raised fists: Women and labor activism in globalizing thailand. Signs, 31(1), 117-144.

Ortiz, A. (1996). Puerto rican women and work: Bridges in transnational labor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Piper, N., & Roces, M. (2003). Wife or worker? : Asian women and migration. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Swider, S. (2006). Working women of the world unite? Labor organizing and transnational gender solidarity among domestic workers in Hong Kong. In M. M. Ferree, & A. M. Tripp (Eds.), Global feminism: Transnational women's activism, organizing, and human rights (pp. 110-140)

Thorne, B. (March 1987). Re-visioning women and social change: Where are the children? Gender and Society, 1(1), 85-109.

Yeoh, B. S. A., Teo, P., & Huang, S. (2002). Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region. London ; New York: Routledge.