This short book outlines the current activities of the largest transnational trade union organizations, and offers an explanation as to why they are not succeeding in their efforts to curtail the power of global capital. The paper employs Gramscis notion of a historic bloc and van der Pijls understanding of the class fractions to examine the dilemma faced by Global Unions in seeking to extend to the global level the industrial relations regimes secured throughout the advanced capitalist countries in the postwar period. It is argued that the historical conditions which afforded organized...