Download or read book Social Movement Dynamics of Labor Organizing written by Richard D. Sullivan (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Next Upsurge written by Dan Clawson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. labor movement may be on the verge of massive growth, according to Dan Clawson. He argues that unions don't grow slowly and incrementally, but rather in bursts. Even if the AFL-CIO could organize twice as many members per year as it now does, it would take thirty years to return to the levels of union membership that existed when Ronald Reagan was elected president. In contrast, labor membership more than quadrupled in the years from 1934 to 1945. For there to be a new upsurge, Clawson asserts, labor must fuse with social movements concerned with race, gender, and global justice.The new forms may create a labor movement that breaks down the boundaries between "union" and "community" or between work and family issues. Clawson finds that this is already happening in some parts of the labor movement: labor has endorsed global justice and opposed war in Iraq, student activists combat sweatshops, unions struggle for immigrant rights. Innovative campaigns of this sort, Clawson shows, create new strategies—determined by workers rather than union organizers—that redefine the very meaning of the labor movement. The Next Upsurge presents a range of examples from attempts to replace "macho" unions with more feminist models to campaigns linking labor and community issues and attempts to establish cross-border solidarity and a living wage.
Download or read book Rethinking the American Labor Movement written by Elizabeth Faue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the "labor movement." While the efforts of the American labor force towards greater wealth parity have been rife with contention, the struggle has embraced a broad vision of a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and a desire for workers to have greater control over their own lives. In this succinct and authoritative volume, Elizabeth Faue reconsiders the varied strains of the labor movement, situating them within the context of rapidly transforming twentieth-century American society to show how these efforts have formed a political and social movement that has shaped the trajectory of American life. Rethinking the American Labor Movement is indispensable reading for scholars and students interested in American labor in the twentieth century and in the interplay between labor, wealth, and power.
Download or read book Social Movement Dynamics of Labor Organizing written by Richard D. Sullivan (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Labor Movement written by Frank Tannenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Movements and Organized Labour written by Jürgen R. Grote and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the building of alliances and about joint activities between two groups of social movement actors ascribed increasing relevance for the functioning and the eventual amendment of democratic capitalism. The chapters provide a well-balanced mix of theoretical and empirical accounts on the political, social and economic catalysts behind the changing motives finding expression in a multitude of novel types of joint collective action and inter-organizational alliances. The contributors to this volume go beyond attempting to place unions, movements, crises, precariousness, protests and coalitions at the centre of the research. Instead, they focus on actors who themselves transcend clear-cut social camps. They look at the values and motives underlying collective action by both types of actors as much as at their structural and strategic properties, and inter-organizational relations and networks. This creates a fresh, genuine and historically valid account of the incompatibilities and the commonalities of movements and unions, and of prospects for inter-organizational learning.
Download or read book Evaluating Social Movement Impacts written by Brian Mello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some social movements bring in quick, radical political and social changes while others get incorporated into existing systems or subjected to harsh repression. This book examines why social movements elicit different policy responses and their varying impact on the societies in which they occur. It also seeks to understand why seemingly inconsequential movements can nonetheless have enduring effects. These issues are explored through the comparative historical analysis of four labor movements, in the UK and the U.S. in the late 1800s -early 1900s, in Japan from 1945 to 1960, and in Turkey during the mid to late 1900s, which is the book's primary case study. Turkey's labor movement, although often seen as a failure, greatly influenced state-society relations and contemporary Turkish politics. This significant study offers a new framework of analysis by focusing on social movement impacts rather than successes or failures. This leads to having to reconsider the enduring effects of repressed or failed movements. By doing so, it will help researchers study the likely impact of social movements in today's politics.
Download or read book Success While Others Fail written by Paul Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Johnston tells the stories of four groups of workers, two in local government and two in the private sector. He examines complex patterns of difference related to gender, race, occupation, and public or private employment. Each group of workers engaged in some form of what Johnston calls "social movement unionism", including an early "Justice for Janitors" campaign. These movements reflect the efforts of individual organizers, such as Maxine Jenkins, key organizer for the first comparable worth strikes in both public and private sectors. They are also shaped, Johnston argues, by their different historical and structural contexts. Success depends in each case, he concludes, on the fit between these conditions and the model of unionism employed. Johnston examines in detail the interaction of public and private labor movements, gender relations, and urban life and politics. His book will interest not only industrial relations scholars but also political scientists, social movement scholars, organization theorists, students of public administration, urban sociologists, and those who study comparable worth.
Download or read book Social Movements written by Paul Almeida and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead to political and social transformation. This fully class-tested book is the first to be organized along the lines of the major subfields of social movement scholarship—framing, movement emergence, recruitment, and outcomes—to provide comprehensive coverage in a single core text. Features include: use of real data collected in the U.S. and around the world the emphasis on student learning outcomes case studies that bring social movements to life examples of cultural repertoires used by movements (flyers, pamphlets, event data on activist websites, illustrations by activist musicians) to mobilize a group topics such as immigrant rights, transnational movement for climate justice, Women's Marches, Fight for $15, Occupy Wall Street, Gun Violence, Black Lives Matter, and the mobilization of popular movements in the global South on issues of authoritarian rule and neoliberalism With this book, students deepen their understanding of movement dynamics, methods of investigation, and dominant theoretical perspectives, all while being challenged to consider their own place in relation to social movements.
Download or read book What Works in Organizing written by Susan Elizabeth Twiddy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: organizing, North Carolina, social movement theory, labor unions.
Download or read book Social Movement Alliance Formation written by Brian Keith Obach and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebuilding Labor written by Ruth Milkman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rebuilding Labor Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss bring together established researchers and a new generation of labor scholars to assess the current state of labor organizing and its relationship to union revitalization. Throughout this collection, the focus is on the formidable challenges unions face today and on how they may be overcome.-publisher description.
Download or read book Defining Them and Us written by Jeremy E. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Developing an understanding of the relationship between issue framing and collective identity construction is vital to the understanding of any social movement. Unfortunately, these concepts have been largely separate in the social movement literature. Through qualitative content analysis, I explore the relationship between the collective identity production and issue framing that occurs during union organizing campaigns. This study demonstrates the value of studying collective identity through frame theory, that labor unions can be effectively studied as social movements, and that multiple types of framing may occur simultaneously.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements written by Donatella Della Porta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.
Download or read book Organizing Dissent written by Maria Lorena Cook and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing Dissent examines the democratic movement that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s within Mexico's National Union of Education Workers, the largest union in Latin America. The size, perseverance, and success the movement stood out in a country whose governing regime was renowned for its ability to co-opt, control, and repress dissent. Maria Lorena Cook analyzes the development of the teachers' movement from its origins in the 1970s through the economic crisis 0f the 1980s and into the early 1990s under the Salinas administration. She explores the evolving relationship among the union leadership, the state, and rank-and-file teachers, looks closely at organization dynamics and competing strategies within the movement, and compares the successes and failures of six regional contingents of the teachers' movement located in southern and central Mexico.
Download or read book The Union Makes Us Strong written by Deeb-Paul Kitchen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This research explores the work associated with collective action framing in the increasingly prevalent graduate labor movement. Specifically I examine the discursive aspects of mobilization efforts within the structures of academia and organized labor. This is achieved through the utilization of ethnographic, participant observations within a local union chapter. I also rely heavily on interview data. I conduct both group and individual, in-depth interviews with labor activists associated with Graduate Assistants United at the University of Florida. In terms of my organizational focus, I am interested in the actualities and organization of work graduate union organizers perform. In terms social movements, I am investigating the use of narrative in organizing and framing efforts. This research offers insight into the dynamic relationship between framing processes and the intended audience and documents the tools used by social movement organization activists. Furthermore, I am utilizing this case as a window into the changing dynamics of academia and organized labor in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Organizing in the Trenches written by Mario Venegas and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation asks: how do activist and organizers understand the craft of organizing? What is organizing to them and what practical challenges do they encounter? In exploring these questions, I answer a larger theoretical question: how do styles of organizing shape the relationships of power in the organizations that organizers and activists build? I argue that styles of organizing shape power relationships, in particular decision making in three key conjunctures: tactics, discipline, and accountability. Katznelson’s notion of trenches sensitizes scholars to understand how relations of power, competing factions, and ideological differences shape community and labor. That is, styles of organizing are guided by ideology, vision, and tactics that help unions, nonprofits and community organizations to outmaneuver rivals and enemies like employers, political figures, as well as internal rivals within their organizations. Through in-depth interviews with 35 activists, as well as archival data, I examine the styles of organizing that came out of the Alinsky, New Left, and Marxist schools of activism in three key movements in Texas: the Chicana/o movement, LGBTQ movements, and public sector unions. I identify tactics, discipline, and accountability as three key conjunctures with their own internal tensions and practical dilemmas that activists navigate as key aspects of organizing. The Chicano movement in Texas illuminates the tactical warfare between activists with Alinskyite, New Left, and Marxist philosophies to organize the movement. Alinsky’s dominance in the movement through its confrontational and intimidating tactics also established inequalities that persist to this day. Activists navigate internal tensions in discipline and accountability, such as negotiating between permissive discipline or sectarian purging among LGBTQ activists and negotiating between transparency and image-management among public sector union activists. By studying the craft of organizing in the Alinskyite, New Left, and Marxist styles, I set out to illuminate the mechanisms of organizing, what it consists of, and examine the practical organizing challenges that those engaged with transforming society encounter. Lastly, I contribute to the social movements literature by exploring internal movement dynamics and centering endogenous factors in the way movements develop, splinter, and persist
