Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva
Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration,
labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She
illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies
set mostly in New England and Colombia. Taken together, the case
studies offer an intricate portrait of two regions, their
industries and workers, and the myriad links between them over the
long twentieth century, as well as a new way to conceptualize
globalization as a long-term process.Chomsky examines labor and
management at two early-twentieth-century Massachusetts factories:
one that transformed the global textile industry by exporting looms
around the world, and another that was the site of a model program
of labor-management collaboration in the 1920s. She follows the
path of the textile industry from New England, first to the U.S.
South, and then to Puerto Rico, Japan, Mexico, Central America, the
Caribbean, and Colombia. She considers how towns in Rhode Island
and Massachusetts began to import Colombian workers as they
struggled to keep their remaining textile factories going. Most of
the workers eventually landed in service jobs: cleaning houses,
caring for elders, washing dishes. Focusing on Colombia between the
1960s and the present, Chomsky looks at the Uraba banana export
region, where violence against organized labor has been
particularly acute, and, through a discussion of the AFL-CIO's
activities in Colombia, she explores the thorny question of U.S.
union involvement in foreign policy. In the 1980s, two U.S. coal
mining companies began to shift their operations to Colombia, where
they opened two of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world.
Chomsky assesses how different groups, especially labor unions in
both countries, were affected. Linked Labor Histories suggests that
economic integration among regions often exacerbates regional
inequalities rather than ameliorating them.
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