Workers' Rights, Human Rights, and Solidarity Across Borders

Over the past few decades, as restless capital has moved about the world looking for cheaper production sites, labor campaigns have looked across borders for support. In a world where threats of capital mobility and outsourcing strategies are used to push wages and working conditions ever lower, local activists have called on international allies to insist that multinationals improve the treatment of workers - especially in the developing world, where local governments often seem unwilling or unable to protect their citizens at work and where workers on their own have little leverage. © Copyright International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2011.