diff --git a/jenkins/__init__.py b/jenkins/__init__.py
index 7ebdbea..3f9c209 100755
--- a/jenkins/__init__.py
+++ b/jenkins/__init__.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ import warnings
 import multi_key_dict
 import requests
 import requests.exceptions as req_exc
+import urllib3.util.timeout
 from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
 from six.moves.http_client import BadStatusLine
 from six.moves.urllib.error import URLError
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ LAUNCHER_COMMAND = 'hudson.slaves.CommandLauncher'
 LAUNCHER_JNLP = 'hudson.slaves.JNLPLauncher'
 LAUNCHER_WINDOWS_SERVICE = 'hudson.os.windows.ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher'
 DEFAULT_HEADERS = {'Content-Type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8'}
+DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = getattr(urllib3.util.timeout, '_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT', socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT)
 
 # REST Endpoints
 INFO = 'api/json'
@@ -300,7 +302,7 @@ class Jenkins(object):
     _timeout_warning_issued = False
 
     def __init__(self, url, username=None, password=None,
-                 timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT):
+                 timeout=DEFAULT_TIMEOUT):
         '''Create handle to Jenkins instance.
 
         All methods will raise :class:`JenkinsException` on failure.
@@ -2247,7 +2249,7 @@ class Jenkins(object):
             raise ValueError("Timeout must be >= 0 not %d" % timeout)
 
         if (not self._timeout_warning_issued and
-                self.timeout != socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT and
+                self.timeout != DEFAULT_TIMEOUT and
                 timeout < self.timeout):
             warnings.warn("Requested timeout to wait for jenkins to resume "
                           "normal operations is less than configured "