The trade union movement internationally is finding itself peripheralized by a series of mutually-reinforcing processes: the on-going world economic crisis; the uneven transition from an industrial to an information and service capitalism; the aggressive policies of neo-liberalism; the collapse of Communism and Radical Nationalism; одкця the decline of the globalization that undermines the nation-state to which union hopes have long been pinned The editors argue that this crisis provides an opportunity for labor to recover or reinvent itself.  PreciouISBN 0312217684.