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26 Lab. Stud. J. 1 (2001-2002)

handle is hein.journals/labstuj26 and id is 1 raw text is: Special Issue Unions in the Global Economy Edited by Frank Emspak and Marta-Luz D. Samper Introduction There are two main points expressed in this set of articles. First, globalization is complex and challenging, requiring a conversation among the many workers who have had direct experience with its effects-such as its impact on jobs, immigration, coordinated bargaining, and sweat- shop monitoring-and providing a constant reminder of the workers' own- ership of the struggle. Second, there is the continuous need to work in coalitions beyond borders. The articles in this special issue attempt to illustrate the complexity of the globalization debate and thus, by implication, the breadth of the subjects that need to be understood so that working people can construct a political and trade union agenda that will meet our needs. Indeed, the very word globalization may not be the correct term to describe the phenomena of worldwide economic domination by the most powerful capitalist countries. Somehow globalization does not capture the reality of falling living standards, attacks on trade unions, forced emi- gration, and thus immigration, job loss, and the disruption of entire com- munities. Nor does globalization capture the reality of huge increases in the living standards and wealth of the top 10 percent of the world's popu- lation. The papers presented in this special issue of the Labor Studies Jour- nal are arranged in order to take the reader from general issues to specific analyses. We have also tried to arrange them in chronological order. James M. Cypher's paper, NAFTA's Lessons: From Economic My- thology to Current Realities, describes the myths surrounding the so- called free trade debate. Cypher shows that securing safety for capital and The original versions of these papers were presented at the UCLEA/AFL- CIO Education Conference, Unions and the Global Economy: Labor Education at the Crossroads, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 12-15, 2000.

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