This paper examines the sources of local union power to cope with workplace change. Are workplace unions active participants, merely passengers, outright opponents, or entirely excluded from the change process? Drawing on 18 case studies and a survey conducted in the auto and metalworking...

It is commonly held that the increasing globalization of the economy leads inexorably to the weakening of local union power. But if globalization is rightly associated with new constraints, such constraints do not automatically determine the outcomes of local union action. Union power remains...

Based on the account of trade union representatives from the mining sector in Ghana and Mexico, this paper offers a re-reading of the debate on transnational unionism between developing global coalitions and local networks. Trade union strategies are captured under three analytical fields:...