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[...] The U.S. labor movement's success in having open immigration outlawed in the 1920s set the stage for the stabilization of the U.S. working class and contributed to the subsequent CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) victories in the 1930s. At the same time, however, this U.S. labor move…

[...] we can draw on Immanuel Wallerstein's notion that historical capitalism is characterized by a "system-level problem." That is, profits can be made - even with the partial de-commodification of labor and the establishment of expensive social contracts - as long as those concessions are made to…

If the hypermobility of capital is widely seen as having undermined mar­ketplace and associational bargaining power, related "post-Fordist" trans­formations in the organization of production and labor process are widely seen as having undermined labor's workplace bargaining power. Thus, sub­contrac…

Contentions about the state of world labor are based on assumptions about the impact of contemporary globalization on workers' bargaining power. A useful starting point for differentiating types of workers' bargaining power is Erik Olin Wright's (2 000: 962) distinction between associational and st…

[...] the most important effect of the hypermobility of capital on labor movements is not so much its direct impact on workers, but its indirect impact. In this view, the hypermobility of capital has weakened de facto state sovereignty . And as states become incapable of effectively controlling flo…