A Global Union for Global Workers illustrates how unions in one industry successfully set global minimum wages and working conditions, and participated authoritatuively in global governance in their industry. Nathan Lillie powerfully highlights the potential for the labour movement to become an effective transitional force and participant in democratic global governance. The inability of most unions to adapt to the new conditions and their consequent decline, is a threat to workers' living standards everywhere, and to prospects for a more democratic system of global governance.

Reconstructing Solidarity explores the struggles of unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, and the implications of these struggles for worker solidarity and institutional change.