Ingemar Lindberg – författare

Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy. Through a range of case studies, this volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity of labour in a period of global restructuring and changing global political economy. It brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation as well as co-operation between trade unions and social movements within the formal and informal economy, and the public and private sector. It is structured in six parts and examines: Globalisation and the new challenges for transnational solidarityInter trade union co-operation across borders. The dynamics of co-operation between trade unions and social movements across borders, looking at developing and developed countries. The struggles to defend the public sector against private service providers. The possible ways forward towards transnational solidarity of formal and informal labour in the global economy. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Political Economy, International Relations, Industrial Relation, Globalisation, Geography and History.

Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy. Through a range of case studies, this volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity of labour in a period of global restructuring and changing global political economy. It brings together a range of international and transnational case studies, examining successful and failed transnational solidarity covering inter-trade union co-operation as well as co-operation between trade unions and social movements within the formal and informal economy, and the public and private sector. It is structured in six parts and examines: Globalisation and the new challenges for transnational solidarityInter trade union co-operation across borders. The dynamics of co-operation between trade unions and social movements across borders, looking at developing and developed countries. The struggles to defend the public sector against private service providers. The possible ways forward towards transnational solidarity of formal and informal labour in the global economy. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Political Economy, International Relations, Industrial Relation, Globalisation, Geography and History.

‘Free trade’ strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North especially in manufacturing have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. Especially the expansion of the free trade agenda into services, public procurement, investment, intellectual property rights as well as investor to state dispute settlement provisions are considered to be problematic. The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying ‘free trade’ policy-making in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. Bringing together labour academics with trade union researchers and social movement activists, this volume moves from conceptual reflections about the impact of ‘free trade’ via the analysis of struggles around free trade agreements to considerations of concrete alternatives.This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy.Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more impoverished ones.The study identifies new or renewed labour responses among formalised core workers as well as those on the periphery, including street-traders, homeworkers and other 'informal sector' workers.The book contains ten country studies, including India, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. It argues that workers and trade unions, through intensive collaboration with other social forces across the world, can challenge the logic of neoliberal globalization.

‘Free trade’ strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North especially in manufacturing have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. Especially the expansion of the free trade agenda into services, public procurement, investment, intellectual property rights as well as investor to state dispute settlement provisions are considered to be problematic. The purpose of this volume is to understand better these dynamics underlying ‘free trade’ policy-making in order to explore possibilities for transnational labour solidarity. Bringing together labour academics with trade union researchers and social movement activists, this volume moves from conceptual reflections about the impact of ‘free trade’ via the analysis of struggles around free trade agreements to considerations of concrete alternatives.This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

I Moçambique har gatuhandlarna ett eget fackförbund som förhandlar med myndigheterna om vatten och avlopp. De som gräver i sopbergen ställer gemensamma krav gentemot uppköparna, som Sewa i Indien. Bilarbetare i Trollhättan och Rüsselsheim hittar nya former för ömsesidigt stöd. Ett nytt landskap tar form. Den globala arbetarklassen står inför två sammanhängande utmaningar. Den första består i att arbetare i olika länder tvingas konkurrera med varandra, den andra i den växande informaliseringen: Allt fler människor i Syd pressas in i undersysselsättning, tillfälliga jobb eller i att bjuda ut varor och tjänster på gatorna.

I denna personligt färgade idépolitiska essäbok hävdar Ingemar Lindberg att bara en samhällsordning bortom kapitalismen kan frigöra dagens oerhörda möjligheter till ett bättre liv för alla människor på jorden. Kapitalet ökar sin globala rörlighet och skapar allt skarpare utpressningssituationer mot demokratiskt valda regeringar. Allt fler människor dras in i den kapitalistiska produktionsordningen och klyftorna växer både inom och mellan länder. Dagens svenska och europeiska socialdemokrati tycks ha gett upp ambitionen att omvandla samhällsordning. Just då träder en global rättviserörelse fram och säger det som den gamla rörelsen slutat säga att en annan värld är möjlig. Dagens världsordning är inte bara kapitalistisk, den är också imperialistisk. Endast genom de fattigas organisering och global demokrati kan den härskande imperialismen rubbas. Nya former för organisering växer fram och ställer arbetarrörelsen i Nord vid ett vägval. Ingemar Lindberg har länge varit verksam inom svensk välfärdsdebatt som utredare, statssekreterare i socialdepartementet och sedan på LO med ansvar för Rättviseutredningen i början av 90-talet och uppbyggnaden av LO idédebatt. "Jag är djupt besviken över en sentida socialdemokrati som svalt stora delar av nyliberalismens tankegods och tiger om de växande ekonomiska och sociala klyftorna i dagens Sverige."

Löntagarnas andel av nationalinkomsten – den så kallade löneandelen – har minskat drastiskt de senaste 30 åren. Istället har ägarnas vinster ökat. Den här antologin försöker ge svar på hur och varför. En rad bidragande faktorer skärskådas: ökad automatisering av produktionen, maktförskjutningar mellan fackföreningar och arbetsgivare, nedskärningar i välfärdsstaten. Skribenterna är forskare med olika teoretiska perspektiv – neoklassisk nationalekonomi, maktresursteori, postkeynesianism och marxism. ”Ekonomin växer inte som den ska. Kapitalet klarar sig bra genom att ta en allt större del av kakan. Förlorarna är de som arbetar. De senaste årens utveckling visar på att frågan om löneandelen åter är aktuell. Som jag sa tidigare, diskussionen har bara börjat. Men det är en debatt vi måste ta. Innan rövarbaronerna och industrirobotarna har förvandlat vårt samhälle till något vi inte som vi inte känner igen och inte vill ha.” Paul Krugman, New York Times 9 december 2012