This volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity in a period of global restructuring. It brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation as...

1. Mercantilist origins of capitalism and its legacies : decline of the West and rise of the rest / Kari Polanyi Levitt -- 2. Lessons from the struggle for a new International Technology Order / Norman Girvan -- 3. In the vortex of neoliberal globalisation : the precarious state of democracy and...