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How do the changing roles of diverse publics affect possibilities for the practice of public sociology? Having set this question in the context of Burawoy's 2004 launch of public sociology, this analysis goes on to look at some distinguished illustrative examples of public sociology, beginning with Du Bois. The goal is to explore how the evolution of surrounding 'archipelagos of publics' creates challenges and opportunities for public sociology. In addition to Du Bois, the work of Edward Webster and his colleagues in South Africa, the unorthodox career of Marshall Ganz and the ethnographic public sociology of Arlie Hochschild are considered. A synoptic sketch of the evolution of publics in Brazil since the 1964 military coup and an example of contemporary Brazilian public sociology—the 'Emancipation Network'—follow. I conclude with a 'neo-Polanyian pessimist' vision of what the contemporary combination of neoliberalism and reactionary authoritarianism might mean for public sociology.

A era neoliberal minou os direitos dos trabalhadores e o poder das forças sociais do trabalho a nível nacional, mas foi caracterizada, também, como uma era do novo "transnacionalismo do movimento dos trabalhadores". Mudanças conjunturais a nível nacional foram fundamentais para aumentar a abertura às alianças transnacionais. Uma análise das campanhas evidencia isso. Avaliar as conexões entre movimentos nacionais de trabalhadores e a nova infraestrutura organizacional que emergiu no neoliberalismo é um ponto de partida necessário para construir teorias mais apuradas sobre as dinâmicas das contestações das forças sociais do trabalho ao capital global.Palavras-chave: Trabalhadores. Sindicatos globais. Transnacionalismo. Sindicatos nacionais. Neoliberalismo.Publicação Online do Caderno CRH no Scielo: http://www.scielo.br/ccrh Publicação Online do Caderno CRH: http://www.cadernocrh.ufba.br

A era neoliberal minou os direitos dos trabalhadores e o poder das forças sociais do trabalho a nível nacional, mas foi caracterizada, também, como uma era do novo "transnacionalismo do movimento dos trabalhadores". Mudanças conjunturais a nível nacional foram fundamentais para aumentar a abertura às alianças transnacionais. Uma análise das campanhas evidencia isso. Avaliar as conexões entre movimentos nacionais de trabalhadores e a nova infraestrutura organizacional que emergiu no neoliberalismo é um ponto de partida necessário para construir teorias mais apuradas sobre as dinâmicas das contestações das forças sociais do trabalho ao capital global.

Polanyi offers a powerful vision of a "great transformation" that will reverse the subordination of society to the economy and reassert the primacy of social protection in the context of modern society. Pursuit of the great transformation is one way of conceptualizing the quest for "development" in the positive sense of ecologically sustainable human flourishing. This paper explores how the contemporary interaction of national and global political dynamics affects the trajectory of Polanyi's "double movement." Does the shift of economic power to globally organized capital while the space for contentious politics remains primarily at the national level "checkmate" the movement for social protection? Or is there more potential for political contestation and policies supporting social protection at the national level than the "global checkmate" thesis claims? And, if so, can this potential be magnified by productive, synergistic alliances between national and global movements, resulting in a global auxiliary effect instead of a global checkmate effect? Answering these questions requires analyzing the relative autonomy of national political regimes vis-à-vis global capital as well as evaluating the ability of movements to connect effectively across levels.

President Cardoso's recent assessment of the prospects for "globalized social democracy" raises, once again, the question of what space for agency exists within the global political economy for actors in the South, which was central to the analysis Cardoso and Faletto presented in Dependency and Development 40 years ago. Dependency and Development's "historical–structural" approach balanced belief in the possibility of political agency with a keen appreciation of structural constraint. Cardoso's current exploration of global possibilities carries forward both tradition of the historical–structural method, arguing that social democracy is an option in the South and that the globalized social democrats in the South will play a growing role in shaping global political institutions. He does not explore the possibility that social democrats in the South may need to play a role in shaping global economic rules. This paper argues that reconstructing global market rules is crucial to the long-run success of "globalized social democracies" in the South and that such reconstruction, however difficult, lies within the realm of the historically viable.