Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Labor Organizing During covid-19

IF 1.7 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Journal of Labor and Society Pub Date : 2022-09-26 DOI:10.1163/24714607-bja10069
Eleni Schirmer, Rebecca Tarlau
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This article explores how crises become opportunities. Through a study of a progressive teachers’ union caucus in New York City during the emergence of covid-19, this piece examines how organizations convert crises into opportunities for political growth. Drawing on sociological theories of political articulation and crisis, this article explores the role of union caucuses to foment political change. We argue that crises become politically significant according to how organizations use events to catalyze competing political narratives to drive new political formations. We examine how union caucuses engage in this work. Using ethnographic methods of participant observation and interviews, our study finds that caucuses with established visions, internal organizational structure, and moral legitimacy are better able to take advantage of crises. These conditions allow caucuses to exercise power, not just petition for it. We conclude that the existence of organizational infrastructure and ideological coherence enables a group to convert crises into opportunities.
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永远不要浪费好的危机:新冠肺炎期间的劳工组织
本文探讨了危机如何变成机遇。本文通过对2019冠状病毒病出现期间纽约市进步教师工会核心小组的研究,探讨了组织如何将危机转化为政治增长的机会。利用政治表达和危机的社会学理论,本文探讨了工会党团会议在煽动政治变革中的作用。我们认为,危机之所以具有政治意义,取决于组织如何利用事件来催化相互竞争的政治叙事,从而推动新的政治形态。我们将研究工会党团会议是如何参与这项工作的。采用参与者观察和访谈的民族志方法,我们的研究发现,具有既定愿景、内部组织结构和道德合法性的党团会议能够更好地利用危机。这些条件允许党团会议行使权力,而不仅仅是请愿。我们的结论是,组织基础设施和意识形态一致性的存在使一个群体能够将危机转化为机会。
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