Coalitions across Borders Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order

by Bandy, Joe; Smith, Jackie; Brooks, Ethel; Cullen, Pauline; Edwards, Bob; Faber, Daniel; Foster, John W.; Juska, Arunas; Macdonald, Laura; Seidman, Gay W.; Tilly, Charles; Waterman, Peter; Wood, Lesley J.

• ISBN13: 9780742523968
• ISBN10: 0742523969
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-19
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Coalitions across Borders shows how social movements have cooperated and conflicted as they work to develop a transnational civil society in response to perceived threats of neoliberalism--free trade, privatization, structural adjustment, and unbrid

Author Biography

Joe Bandy is assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine Ethel Brooks is professor of women's studies at Rutgers University Pauline P. Cullen is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Dickenson College in Pennsylvania Bob Edwards is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina Daniel Faber is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts John W. Foster directs the Civil Society Research Program at the North-South Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Arunas Juska is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina Laura Macdonald is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy and is director of the Centre on North American Politics and Society at Carleton University Gay W. Seidman is professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin at Madison Jackie Smith is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York-Stony Brook Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University Peter Waterman is retired professor at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Lesley J. Wood is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University in New York

Table of Contents

Foreword
Charles Tilly	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
1 Introduction: Cooperation and Conflict in Transnational Protest	1	(20)
Jackie Smith and Joe Bandy
PART I MOVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES
2 Gendering Transnational Social Movement Analysis: Women's Groups Contest Free Trade in the Americas	21	(22)
Laura Macdonald
3 Building a Transnational Environmental Justice Movement: Obstacles and Opportunities in the Age of Globalization	43	(28)
Daniel Faber
PART II MODELS OF COALITION
4 Conflict and Cooperation within the Platform of European Social NGOs	71	(24)
Pauline P. Cullen
5 Bridging the Chasms: The Case of Peoples' Global Action	95	(26)
Lesley J. Wood
PART III PERSPECTIVES ON LABOR SOLIDARITY
6 Transnational Campaigns against Child Labor: The Garment Industry in Bangladesh	121	(20)
Ethel Brooks
7 Talking across Difference in an Interconnected World of Labor	141	(22)
Peter Waterman
8 Monitoring Multinationals: Corporate Codes of Conduct	163	(24)
Gay W. Seidman
PART IV TRANSNATIONAL CAMPAIGNS
9 Refusing the Trojan Pig: The U.S.-Poland Coalition against Corporate Pork Production	187	(22)
Arunas Juska and Bob Edwards
10 The Trinational Alliance against NAFTA: Sinews of Solidarity	209	(22)
John W. Foster
11 Factors Affecting Conflict and Cooperation in Transnational Movement Networks	231	(22)
Joe Bandy and Jackie Smith
Index	253	(6)
About the Contributors	259