Each contribution highlights issues pertinent to this predicament. Drawing on a lifetime of researching labor in South Africa, Webster considers the ‘idea of solidarity’ – the ways in which such a culture and strategy can, in certain instances, be fractured but also strengthened in a manner which empowers. If transforming individualism at the local level is challenging, how much more its global construction? Webster contends that the latter might evolve through three types of solidarity: human rights (defence of victims); production (linking work places); and regulation (developing the law to protect rights and standards).