From its beginnings the international labour movement drew its strength and cohesion  from social and moral values such as justice, solidarity, emancipation and equity. In this track we want to engage with what these (and other) values mean for trade unionism today, as well as explore what their role in mobilising the international labour movement still is.

However this track also recognizes that there are particularities to different national and regional labour movements creating particular conceptions of these social and political values and traditions. Questions that will be investigated include: How do these differences look? Do they separate or connect us? What is the impact of these potentially conflicting conceptions of values such as solidarity and justice in relation to, for example, increasing global inequality? And how do these national-specific differentiations relate and interact with the values of other social movements such as the women’s liberation movement or the LGBTI* movements? We want to unpack these and other questions in this subject track.