ROUGH DRAFT: Levi and Ahlquist LABOR POWER AND MOBILE CAPITAL THE MARKET GEOGRAPHY OF SOLIDARITY
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Democracies depend on countervailing power. Opposition to authoritarian regimes requires large-scale counter-mobilization. Labor organization—be it in the form of unions or social movements—is often key to both. But by most measures labor power is decreasing just when corporate power appears to be increasing. Union membership, electoral and lobbying pressure, and protest, the indicators we generally use to assess labor clout, all appear to be waning, especially in the economically advanced democracies (Ebbinghaus and Visser 2000; Wallerstein, Golden, and Lange 1997; Wallerstein and Western 2000; Western 1997). With the simultaneous expansion of global finance and trade much of the blame for the seeming decline of labor power has been laid at the feet of globalization, particularly in the popular press (e.g., Greider 1997). Diminishing legal, political, and technological barriers to
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