Introduction : expanding the economic canon and searching for alternatives to neoliberal globalization / Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito -- The recent rebirth of the solidary economy in Brazil / Paul Singer -- Solidarity economy and the struggle for social citizenship in times of globalization : a study of the cooperatives of informal garbage pickers in Colombia / Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito -- Cooperatives and the emancipation of the marginalized : case studies from two cities in India / Sharit K. Bhowmik -- The general union of cooperatives of Maputo : an alternative production system? / Teresa Cruz e Silva -- Community, property and security in rural South Africa : emancipatory opportunities of marginalized survival strategies? / Heinz Klug -- "Mobilization without emancipation" : the social struggles of the landless in Brazil / Zander Navarro -- The emancipation of the movement of landless rural workers within the continual movement of social emancipation / Horacio Martins de Carvalho -- The "back of the city" : the landless and the conception of another city / Joao Marcos de Almeida Lopes -- The old and the new in the new labor internationalism / Hermes Augusto Costa -- Social emancipation and the new labor internationalism : a southern perspective / Rob Lambert, Edward Webster -- Who is singing L'Internationale again? : a Brazilian illustration / Francisco de Oliveira -- Metalworkers, the "strike festival" and the possibilities of a national collective contract / Roberto Veras -- Exploring the possibilities of counter-hegemonic globalization of the fishworkers' movement in India and its global interactions / Gabriele Dietrich, Nalini Nayak -- Alternative production systems? / Anibal Quijano -- Emancipating labor internationalism / Peter Waterman.