ABSTRACT
Autoworkers from factories in different countries in the same company create a solidarity pact to avoid being played out against each other. Textile industry workers in Asia start fighting for a common floor wage. Women workers in South Asia’s garment industry create supportive networks and help each other in fighting both employers and patriarchal practices. Truck drivers from neighbouring countries in Europe, driving through each other’s countries, start organising together (Sahlstrom, 2006: 55-60). Workers, peasants, street traders and small entrepreneurs join hands in fighting for water as a public good. In these, and hundreds of other cases, we witness today a broad range of organising initiatives develop, as workers (understood in a broad sense) engage with an increasingly globalised capitalist economy.
