ABSTRACT
The role of women in unions has surfaced at the center of debates about the revitalized international labor movement, as well as in the fields of labor history and political economy. One early text participating in both organizational and academic debates is the volume of essays collected by NASH and FERNÁNDEZ-KELLY. These groundbreaking essays discuss intersections between the consolidation of multinational corporations, changing labor practices, and gender. Essays such as Helen I.Safa’s “Women, Production and Reproduction in Industrial Capitalism: A Comparison of Brazilian and U.S. Factory Workers” set up important distinctions between the character of rural and urban workers in unions’ efforts to build global solidarity.
