Transnational class and gender networking between the north and the south: Overcoming diversity or reproducing dependencies?

Women’s organizing, both at the local and global level, through transnational networking, has been a significant force in the resistance to global restructuring. For many of these movements in the periphery countries the issue is not the rejection of economic globalization as such but the reform and control of such a process by civil society. For female workers this involves the creation of international norms and mechanisms that can survey and guarantee worker and human rights.