ABSTRACT
Recent studies on labour internationalism and cross-border trade union actions have opened up different ways of viewing transnational unionism. The argument presented here is that cross-border relations are shaped by a variety of actors differentiated along functional and territorial lines within and between different places and spaces of regulation (Anner 2007; Gajewska 2009; Munck 2010; Webster et al. 2008). The chapters in this book analyse a range of ways that unions organise in relation to transnational space. These spaces are an integral part of their strategies at local, national and international levels. This final chapter draws on the contributions to this collection to revisit three issues: the contours and shape of transnational unionism, the question of power and the conditions for building and sustaining solidarity.
