peter waterman

Brief description: Veteran writer/activist on the new labour and social movement internationalisms in physical places and cyberspaces

Location: den haag/the hague

Interests: work, world social forum, cyberspace, online publishing, media, movements, social, Labour, alternative, internationalisms, workers

Skills: cooking, networking, word-processing, editing, writing

Union: abva/kabo (civil servants' union)

Contact email: p.waterman@inter.nl.net

Website: http://blog.choike.org/eng/?tag=peter-waterman

Born London 1936, I began my working life with international Communist organisations in Prague (1955-8, 1966-9). The second time was with the World Federation of Trade Unions. After the Soviet invasion I left the Communist world and in 1970 the world of Communism. I taught university in Northern Nigeria (1970-72). I spent 26 years at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, in the Labour Studies and the Politics programmes (1972-98). In the 1980s I edited / published the Newsletter of International Labour Studies.  Starting 1984 I began to specialise on the new labour and other internationalisms, and on (electronic) communications in relation to such. I have had attachments to universities in the UK, US, South Africa, Mexico and Peru and been hosted by  labour and left international(ist) unions, publications and support centres in Peru, the US, Hong Kong, Korea, South Africa, etc. I published Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (1998/2001). I have written extensively and co-edited collections on international labour and on the World Social Forum (New Delhi 2004). I published a compilation of my own papers in Spanish, Lima 2006. In 2008 I published a related English-language compilation on line with the bilingual Choike, in Montevideo, http://blog.choike.org/eng/?tag=peter-waterman, where other papers of mine can be found. I am involved with numerous of international(ist) labour and sociaI movement publications and networks. And I am (supposed to be) completing my own international/ist memoirs.