ROUGH DRAFT: Levi and Ahlquist LABOR POWER AND MOBILE CAPITAL THE MARKET GEOGRAPHY OF SOLIDARITY

Democracies depend on countervailing power. Opposition to authoritarian regimes requires large-scale counter-mobilization. Labor organization—be it in the form of unions or social movements—is often key to both. But by most measures labor power is decreasing just when corporate power appears to be increasing. Union membership, electoral and lobbying pressure, and protest, the indicators we generally use to assess labor clout, all appear to be waning, especially in the economically advanced democracies (Ebbinghaus an