Book Series

Development, NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement

Contents (pdf 101K)

Preface (pdf 78K)

Introductory Essay: Labor Union and NGO Relations in Development and Social Justice (pdf 71K)
Alan Leather

Part 1
Alliances and tensions between Labor Unions and NGOs

Trade unions and NGOs: the need for cooperation (abstract)
Dave Spooner

Building bridges across a double divide: alliances between US and Latin American labour and NGOs (abstract)
Mark Anner and Peter Evans

Challenging relations: a labour-NGO coalition to oppose the Canada-US and North American Free Trade Agreements (NAFTA), 1985-1993 (abstract)
Sophia Huyer

Time to scale up cooperation? Trade unions, NGOs, and the international anti-sweatshop movement (abstract)
Tim Connor

International NGOs and unions in the South: worlds apart or allies in the struggle? (abstract)
Deborah Eade

Organising citizenship at Local 890’s Citizenship Project: unleashing innovation through an affiliate organisation (abstract)
Paul Johnston

The trade union solution or the NGO problem? The fight for global labour rights (abstract)
Joseph Román

Part 2
Experiences of union-based NGOs

The Global Workplace – challenging the race to the bottom (abstract)
Jackie Simpkins

Working at the intersection—a story from Australia (abstract)
Ken Davis

Part 3
Workers in the informal and maquila economies

Organising home-based workers in the global economy: An action-research approach (abstract)
Ruth Pearson

Never the twain shall meet? Women’s organisations and trade unions in the maquila industry in Central America (abstract)
Marina Prieto and Carolina Quinteros

Beyond the barriers: new forms of labour internationalism (abstract)
Angela Hale

Part 4
Workplace codes of conduct

Who should code your conduct? Trade union and NGO differences in the fight for workers’ rights (abstract)
Rainer Braun and Judy Gearhart

Sweating it out: NGO campaigns and trade union empowerment (abstract)
Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Trade unions, NGOs, and corporate codes of conduct (abstract)
Lance Compa

Workplace codes as tools for workers (abstract)
Neil Kearney and Judy Gearhart

Part 5
Case studies

United we stand: labour unions and human rights NGOs in the democratisation process in Nigeria (abstract)
E. Remi Aiyede

Combining worker and user interests in the health sector: trade unions and NGOs (abstract)
Jane Lethbridge

More than a token gesture: NGOs and trade unions campaigning for a common cause (abstract)
Jonathan Ellis

Trade unions and women’s NGOs: diverse civil society organisations in Iran (abstract)
Elaheh Rostami Povey

‘The Sword of Justice’: South Pacific trade unions and NGOs during a decade of lost development (abstract)
Satendra Prasad and Darryn Snell

Part 6
Resources

Labor Unions and development: an annotated list of resources (pdf 150K)

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