Advocacy and Activism

Interested in transnational labor activism?

If you’re interested in examining the theme of transnational labor activism along with other faculty and graduate students, join PARC’s new Transnational Labor Activism Reading Group (TARG).  We’ll meet every three weeks over wine and cheese to discuss recent books and articles, share ideas and expand our individual and collective knowledge on the topic.

Whether you want to develop new research ideas or expand your knowledge of this field to strengthen your current projects, this group presents an opportunity to engage with recent scholarship and scholars in a sustained way that can lead to in-depth learning.

The group will start with the book Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner, followed by Gay Seidman’s Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism. Other readings will be chosen from a working bibliography on transnational labor activism compiled by Dana Hill, a Social Science doctoral student who is assisting with the reading group. Check out the bibliography at the link below, or email Dana at dmhill@maxwell.syr.edu for access to the searchable version of the bibliography on RefWorks.

If you’re interested in joining the TARG, please e-mail John Burdick at jsburdic@maxwell.syr.edu by January 29 with your work schedule. I will find a time for our 90-minute sessions that is consistent with as many of the schedules as possible.

TARG Bibliography

Anner, Mark et al. 2006.  "The Industrial Determinants of Transnational Solidarity: Global Interunion Politics in Three Sectors."  European Journal of Industrial Relations 12 (1): 7-27.

Tattersall, Amanda. 2007.  "Labor-Community Coalitions, Global Union Alliances, and the Potential of SEIU's Global Partnerships."  In Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-border Campaigns, edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner, 117-136. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Turnbull, Peter.  2007.  "Dockers Versus the Directives: Battling Port Policy on the European Waterfront."  In Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-border Campaigns, edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner, 117-136. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.