Search Terms
Employee rights
International labor activities
Labor unions political activity
Solidarity
Select Articles and Working Papers
Hanagan, Michael P. 2004. “Labor Internationalism: An Introduction”. Social Science History. 27 (4): 485-499.
Krzywdzinski, Martin. 2010. “Organizing employees in Central Eastern Europe: The approach of Solidarność”. European Journal of Industrial Relations. 16 (3): 277-292.
Lee, Cheol-Sung. 2007. “Labor Unions and Good Governance: A Cross-National, Comparative Analysis”. American Sociological Review. 72 (4): 585-609.
Lee, Ching Kwan, and Eli Friedman. 2009. “The Labor Movement”. Journal of Democracy. 20 (3): 21-24.
Elfstrom, Manfred, and Sarosh Kuruvilla. 2014. “The Changing Nature of Labor Unrest in China.” Industrial & Labor Relations Review. 67 (2): 453-480. https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2014&context=articles
Piotrowski, Grzegorz. 2013. Grassroots Groups and Civil Society Actors in Pro-Democratic Transitions in Poland. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/26180.
Robertson, G. B. 2004. “Leading Labor: Unions, Politics, and Protest in New Democracies”. Comparative Politics. 36 (3): 253-272.
Sabatini, Christopher, and Eric Farnsworth. 2006. “The Urgent Need for Labor Law Reform”. Journal of Democracy. 17 (4): 50-64.
Valenzuela, J. Samuel. 1989. “Labor Movements in Transitions to Democracy: A Framework for Analysis”. Comparative Politics. 21 (4): 445-472.
Select Books and Reports
Ascherson, Neal. 1982. The Book of Lech Wałęsa. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Burgess, Katrina. 2004. Parties and unions in the new global economy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Candland, Christopher. 2007. Labor, democratization and development in India and Pakistan. London: Routledge.
China Labour Bulletin. 2012. A decade of change: The workers’ movement in China 2000-2010. Kowloon, Hong Kong: China Labour Bulletin. https://clb.org.hk/content/decade-change-workers%E2%80%99-movement-china-2000-2010-1
Compa, Lance A., and Stephen F. Diamond. 1996. Human rights, labor rights, and international trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Covington, Robert N., Kurt H. Decker, and Robert N. Covington. 2002. Employment law in a nutshell. St. Paul, MN: West Group.
Crowley, Stephen. 1997. Hot coal, cold steel: Russian and Ukrainian workers from the end of the Soviet Union to the post-communist transformations. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Erne, Roland. 2008. European unions: labor’s quest for a transnational democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press/Cornell University Press.
Garton Ash, Timothy. 2002. The Polish revolution: Solidarity. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Gordon, Michael E., and Lowell Turner. 2000. Transnational cooperation among labor unions. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press.
Jessup, David. 1994. Worker rights and trade: democracy’s next frontier. Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Free Labor Development.
Kang, Susan L. 2012. Human rights and labor solidarity: trade unions in the global economy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Kraus, Jon. 2007. Trade unions and the coming of democracy in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kubicek, Paul. 2004. Organized labor in postcommunist states: from solidarity to infirmity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Lambert, Josiah Bartlett. 2005. “If the workers took a notion”: the right to strike and American political development. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press.
Lyle, Fay (ed.), and Michael (ed.) Slackman. 2008. Justice for all: A guide to worker rights in a global economy. Washington, DC: Solidarity Center. https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Justice-for-All.2009.pdf
Mantsios, Gregory. 1998. A new labor movement for the new century. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Paczkowski, Andrzej, Malcolm Byrne, Gregory F. Domber, and Magdalena Klotzbach. 2007. From Solidarity to martial law: the Polish crisis of 1980-1981 : a documentary history. Budapest: Central European University Press.
Penn, Shana. 2005. Solidarity’s secret: the women who defeated Communism in Poland. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Puddington, Arch. 2010. The global state of workers’ rights: free labor in a hostile world. Washington, DC: Freedom House. http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/The%20Global%20State%20of%20Workers%20Rights.pdf.
Silver, Beverly J. 2003. Forces of labor: workers’ movements and globalization since 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sinyai, Clayton. 2006. Schools of democracy: a political history of the American labor movement. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press.
Solidarity Center. 2013. Cambodia: Vocal coalition makes legal history. Washington, DC: American Center for International Labor Solidarity. https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cambodia.English-Final.bug_.pdf
Solidarity Center. 2013. Domestic workers: Winning recognition and protection. Washington, DC: American Center for International Labor Solidarity. https://www.solidaritycenter.org/publication/domestic-workers-winning-recognition-and-protection-2013/
Solidarity Center. 2013. Ledriz: Unions create democratic space in Zimbabwe. Washington, DC: American Center for International Labor Solidarity. https://www.solidaritycenter.org/ledriz-unions-create-democratic-space-in-zimbabwe-2013/
Solidarity Center. 2013. Sri Lanka: Migrants gain voice and protections. Washington, DC: American Center for International Labor Solidarity. https://www.solidaritycenter.org/publication/sri-lanka-migrants-gain-voice-and-protections-2013/
Solidarity Center. 2013. Tunisian women: Sustaining the fight for equal rights. Washington, DC: American Center for International Labor Solidarity. https://www.solidaritycenter.org/publication/tunisian-women-sustaining-the-fight-for-equal-rights-2013/
Szporer, Michael. 2012. Solidarity: the great workers strike of 1980. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Yates, Michael. 1998. Why unions matter. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Organizations
American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center) http://www.solidaritycenter.org
China Labor Watch http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/
Global Unions http://www.global-unions.org/
International Labor Organization (ILO) http://www.ilo.org
International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) http://www.laborrights.org/
International Trade Union Confederation http://www.ituc-csi.org/
Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
Mexico Solidarity Network http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/
U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor http://www.state.gov/g/drl/
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