Review of: Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis, edited by Andreas Bieler et al.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The process of neo-liberal globalisation, characterised by the increasing influence of transnational corporations and global financial markets on national economies, has led to an intensification of labour's efforts to transnationalise.Indeed, the transnationalisation of trade union action is now central to the survival of many labour movements around the world.Trade unions are constantly in search of new strategies and tactics to use and adapt in order to take alternative action against the global forces of capital.Based on theoretical and empirical contributions, this book provides substantial material on labour's agency in the search for alternative strategies.The book is a product of the project "Globalisation and the Possibility of Transnational Actors: The Case of Trade Unions" hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, Norway.This project included a workshop titled "Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis: From Case Studies to Theory", 1 during which labour scholars and activists from around the world discussed contemporary trade union transnational action.After many rich exchanges and debates, the workshop resulted in this edited volume and two special journal issues.2 This edited book addresses a central question for unions in our time: how do unions position themselves in the age of transnational capitalist social relations of production?The authors address this question using different approaches (Van der Linden; Bieler; Schmidt; Golden; Novak), and analyses of trade union strategies in relation to the challenges and opportunities presented by migration (Kjeldstadli; Matos; Jungehülsing).The book also presents theoretical contributions on the power resources that unions can draw upon in different contexts (Webster; Brookes; McCallum; Föhrer; Zajak), as well as broader theoretical questions on the use of cosmopolitanism in shaping trade union action at an international level (Umney).Part I is dedicated to contemporary class formation.It begins with Marcel van der Linden's critical assessment of the current situation of the working class around the world.Van der Linden focuses on the weakness of the trade union movement (which represents only 7 per cent of workers globally) and the challenges that globalisation presents for unions.He concludes that unions need to
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".