标题：Akira Suzuki (ed.): Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism: Diver- sities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States.
摘要：The decline of organized labour in both the global North and South has led trade unions to search for a new type of unionism to be able to deal with the challenges in the last three decades of the global era more effectively. ‘Social Movement Unionism’ (SMU), which was developed through the experiences of the labour movements in the South, has increasingly been concerned as a promising way of labour movement revitalization in the North. SMU was originally developed as a concept by progressive scholars, who studied the militant, powerful labour movements in newly industrializing countries like Brazil, Philippines, South Africa and South Korea, where these movements worked alongside a wide range of social movements for social justice in the 1980s. While the scholarly interpretations of this type of unionism and the use of the SMU concept were originally descriptive, it evolved into a prescriptive model of active union organizing to be applied by trade unions nationally as well as internationally in the struggle against capitalist globalization. Hence, the need of and the interest in studying the experiences of SMU internationally has remarkably grown in the last years.
