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Book Review: Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism

Transnational Labor Network, a more formal, long-term cross-border mechanism which targets transnational corporations. The second key factor, the nature of state transformation, is examined by contrasting El Salvador and Honduras. In El Salvador state repression of labor organizing has been markedly more brutal (at least until the 2009 Honduras coup); thus the labor laws and political climate in Honduras in the 1990s permitted some union advances and shaped labor’s response to globalization. To investigate the third factor—union structure, history, culture and ideology— Anner broadens his inquiry beyond the left oriented unions, which have been the quickest to embrace cross-border strategies, to look at moderate and conservative unions, which are more predisposed to make cross-class alliances with employers within their nations. Here we learn about two other distinct responses to globalization: the radical flank response in which moderate unions win recognition from an employer because they offer to cooperate and stay within their borders and the microcorporatist response in which moderate or conservative unions eschew anything more than global information exchange with other unions and make pacts with employers on a national basis. This latter response has also been common in the U.S., particularly in the auto industry. The depth of Anner’s analysis of management, government, and labor responses in the four countries is impressive and will give the reader many tools for understanding the challenges workers face in today’s globalized workplace.