Labour

Cover illustration from Trade Unions and Civil Society: Links to be (Re-) Discovered (Editions Labor, Brussels), published in French, 2003.

By Peter Waterman - Global Labor Charter Project
November 2009

INTRODUCTION

At the age of 73 it is something of an adventure for me to be hosted – for the first time in my life - by a Catholic labor studies center. I come from another labor tradition:

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IndiaBy Ashok B. Sharma - Tue 23 of June, 2009, Source: MyNews.in - On the eve of the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development slated to be held in New York from June 24, country’s trade unions and civil society organizations have demanded that India take a firm stand by urging for replacing the ailing global financial architecture by a new one embodying principles of economic justice and equitable Development.

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Eric HobsbawmAuthor Eric Hobsbawm - Article history-
Source: The Guardian

Whatever ideological logo we adopt, the shift from free market to public action needs to be bigger than politicians grasp.  See full text.

Lecture Outline,  The Hague, May 28, 2008. By Peter Waterman

1. Introduction

a.    Rather than a general argument concerning the Marxist understanding of the labour movement, this is a consideration of what happened to the specifically Marxist (and general socialist) understanding of the role of this movement in the contemporary struggle for human emancipation (more…)

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