Kim Moody spoke at the latest WLRI trade union seminar, last night, on Globalisation and its effects on the US labour movement.
Moody, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, explored the ways in which migrant workers have been effectively organised in the US – most dramatically shown by the movement around Mayday 2006. Among other things, Moody asked: Do the trade unions have a coherent political strategy toward immigration policy? and examined the positive role that Workers Centres have played.
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Kim Moody is the author of US Labor in Trouble and Transition (Verso, 2007) and Workers in a Lean World (Verso, 1997).
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