Publication: Labour/Le Travail
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Robinson, Ian
Article Excerpt
Deborah Eade and Alan Leather, eds., Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement (Bloomfield, CY: Kumarian Press 2005)
MOST OF the authors of this fascinating collection of essays have worked on both sides of two divides: the one between unions and other types of NGOs, and the one between NGOs based in the global North and those based in the global South. That cooperation across this "double divide," the term used by Evans and Anner in their chapter of the book, is both possible and desirable is one premise shared by the contributors to this volume. Another shared premise is that such cooperation is difficult, and that efforts to cooperate often fail, or, at best, do not realize their full potential. Together, these shared assumptions explain the need for, and the purpose of, this book. The editors and contributors aim to draw on their experience to help others better understand the problems and opportunities involved in cooperation across the two divides, and by this means, to more effectively mitigate the problems and more fully realize the opportunities.
The volume is empirically rich. Most of its essays are case studies--detailed pieces of the vast mosaic of social movement mobilization around worker and human rights in the global economy that has emerged over the last quarter-century. Among the most important pieces of that mosaic examined in this book are struggles to advance worker and human rights in countries with very repressive political regimes (Anner & Evans, Eade, Aiyede, Povey); to curtail sweatshop production in the apparel sector and in export processing zones more broadly (Conner, Braun & Gearhart, Prieto & Quinteros, Lipschutz, Compa, Kearney & Gearhart); to empower informal sector workers (Pearson, Spooner, Johnston); to modify or stop neo-liberal trade agreements such...
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