Marissa Brookes

TL;DR: Workers exercise three distinct types of power when they cooperate in transnational campaigns: structural, institutional, and coalitional power as discussed by the authors, which entail the capacity to physically disrupt an employer's operations, hold an employer accountable through legal or regulatory institutions, and mobilize nonlabor stakeholders to whom the employer must respond.

TL;DR: The authors assess relevant strands of this emerging field that focus on: new theories of labour power and corporate vulnerability, and worker agency and organizing strategy, and argue that developing a more complete understanding of labour transnationalism and its outcomes will require scholars to produce a more explicit critique of mainstream political economy, sociology, political science and labour studies.

TL;DR: The New Politics of Transnational Labor as discussed by the authors argues that the success of transnational labor alliances hinges not only on effective coordination across borders and within workers' local organizations but also on their ability to exploit vulnerabilities in global value chains, invoke national and international institutions, and mobilize networks of stakeholders in ways that threaten employers' core, material interests.

TL;DR: In this article, a new theoretical framework for analysing labour transnationalism that takes into account the unique capacity of workers to physically disrupt production by withdrawing their labour (structural power) and the unique capacities of organized labour to invoke employment relations institutions at the national and international levels (institutional power).