ABSTRACT
Labor is a diverse actor that historically has been both a supporter and challenger of international organizations and global governance according to its own ideology and material interests. Its engagement with civil society, states, international organizations, and transnational corporations has sought to promote a social form of global governance to sit alongside or challenge the dominant security and economic global governance architecture. Drawing upon its associational and strategic power, labor groups tend to side with social and equity oriented global governance elements such as the International Labour Organization in struggles against liberal economic governance as put forward by international financial institutions and the World Trade Organization. Sensing the immense threat to its members, labor has recently turned its attention to influencing the emerging global governance of climate change.