"Globalized neoliberalism is neither inevitable nor irreversible. By strategically reimagining labor activism, globally conscious local organizers are expanding the range of answers to the question of what kind of globalization will eventually predominate. The first part of the article notes that U.S.-ratified international human rights law, in requiring states to provide means of subsistence and work with dignity to all their people, provides a normative frame for organizing for a "socially aware global economy." However, the institutions and policies of globalized market messianism have prevented the realization of these ideals, instead creating an economic human rights catastrophe for most of humanity. The second part of the article proposes a framework for transformative organizing to build a socially aware global economy by linking local organizing to transnational networks. It explores the efficacy of three divergent but complementary strategic manifestations of this framework, which seek to give life to economic human rights law, build transnational solidarity through cross-border action, and prefigure alternative policies and institutions."

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