The neoliberal era has undermined worker’s rights and labor’s power at the national level, but has also been characterized as an era of “the new labor transnationalism”. Shifting fortunes at the national level have been fundamental to expanding openness to transnational alliances. An analysis of campaigns displays that. Assessing the connections among national labor movements and the new global organizational infrastructure that have emerged under neoliberalism is a necessary foundation for building better theories of labor’s evolving contestation with global capital.
Workers; Global Unions; Labor transnationalism; Labor national movements; Neoliberalism