Pub Date : 2023-07-21DOI: 10.1177/00197939231189200
Rebecca Tarlau
How do digitally enabled movements of workers reshape, replace, or reinforce the role of unions? Based on a comparative case study of the 2018 #RedForEd teachers’ strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona, this article argues that despite the hierarchical and bureaucratic character of statewide teachers’ unions, the infrastructure they provided to organize, connect, and legitimize teachers’ actions was critical for statewide strikes. Facebook provided a forum for teachers to express frustrations, scale participation, and in some cases, organize actions. However, the unions’ coordinating capacities were also central. These findings show how combining the mobilizing capacities of social media with existing movement infrastructure can facilitate collective action. In contrast to predictions of digitally enabled activism ushering in an era of “organizing without organizations,” these findings suggest that 21st-century labor movements must meld old and new organizational forms, and not discard the century-and-a-half accumulation of labor infrastructure won by previous generations.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1177/00197939231186932
Matthew T. Bodie
{"title":"Book Review: For Labor to Build Upon: Wars, Depression and Pandemic, by William B. Gould","authors":"Matthew T. Bodie","doi":"10.1177/00197939231186932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231186932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45848864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1177/00197939231187338
D. Iyer
{"title":"Book Review: We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, by Phyllis Michael Wong","authors":"D. Iyer","doi":"10.1177/00197939231187338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231187338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84222470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1177/00197939231187320
T. Rutherford
{"title":"Book Review: Work Organizational Reforms and Employment Relations in the Automotive Industry: American Employment Relations in Transition, by Kenichi Shinohara","authors":"T. Rutherford","doi":"10.1177/00197939231187320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231187320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80413521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1177/00197939231177025
Dina Bishara
Despite its political and strategic importance, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been largely absent from cross-regional comparative treatments of industrial and labor relations. This special issue builds on a rich, multidisciplinary, and methodologically diverse body of research on labor and employment in the MENA, bringing together a collection of cutting-edge work in this field. The goal is to bring the study of the MENA into conversation with international and comparative scholarship on industrial and labor relations and to encourage more systematic inclusion of the MENA in comparative work. Drawing on research on Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, and the Gulf states, contributors to this special issue advance comparative scholarship on migration, labor market outcomes, worker agency, and the relationship between unions and precarious workers. This introductory essay situates these contributions in the context of three bodies of research in the study of labor in the MENA: resistance and contentious activism, labor market challenges, and migration.
{"title":"Introduction to a Special Issue on Labor in the Middle East and North Africa: Precarity, Inequality, and Migration","authors":"Dina Bishara","doi":"10.1177/00197939231177025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231177025","url":null,"abstract":"Despite its political and strategic importance, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been largely absent from cross-regional comparative treatments of industrial and labor relations. This special issue builds on a rich, multidisciplinary, and methodologically diverse body of research on labor and employment in the MENA, bringing together a collection of cutting-edge work in this field. The goal is to bring the study of the MENA into conversation with international and comparative scholarship on industrial and labor relations and to encourage more systematic inclusion of the MENA in comparative work. Drawing on research on Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, and the Gulf states, contributors to this special issue advance comparative scholarship on migration, labor market outcomes, worker agency, and the relationship between unions and precarious workers. This introductory essay situates these contributions in the context of three bodies of research in the study of labor in the MENA: resistance and contentious activism, labor market challenges, and migration.","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"627 - 645"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76043869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1177/00197939231186363
X. Whittaker
{"title":"Book Review: A Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations: Storytelling as Revolution from Within, by Tamara L. Lee, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Naomi R. Williams, and Maite Tapia","authors":"X. Whittaker","doi":"10.1177/00197939231186363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231186363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82244184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1177/00197939231181586
Yasmin R Mohamed, Thibault Darcillon
This article investigates the relationship between the share of assets held by institutional investors relative to GDP and a synthetic index of union bargaining power in 20 OECD countries from 1980 to 2017. Findings from the use of fixed-effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions show that the share of assets held by institutional investors, especially insurance companies and pension funds, is correlated with a decline in union bargaining power. The authors argue that by contributing to significant changes in corporate strategies and governance through potential effects on jobs and wages, institutional investors in most OECD countries may have weakened the influence of trade unions, thereby leading to a higher decentralization of wage bargaining. Mixed evidence is found, however, when investigating the role of complementarity across institutions to explain cross-country heterogeneity.
{"title":"Union Bargaining Power and Institutional Investors: Evidence from 20 OECD Countries, 1980–2017","authors":"Yasmin R Mohamed, Thibault Darcillon","doi":"10.1177/00197939231181586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231181586","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the relationship between the share of assets held by institutional investors relative to GDP and a synthetic index of union bargaining power in 20 OECD countries from 1980 to 2017. Findings from the use of fixed-effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions show that the share of assets held by institutional investors, especially insurance companies and pension funds, is correlated with a decline in union bargaining power. The authors argue that by contributing to significant changes in corporate strategies and governance through potential effects on jobs and wages, institutional investors in most OECD countries may have weakened the influence of trade unions, thereby leading to a higher decentralization of wage bargaining. Mixed evidence is found, however, when investigating the role of complementarity across institutions to explain cross-country heterogeneity.","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"86 1","pages":"864 - 889"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83934089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1177/00197939231181084
Brendan Davidson
{"title":"Book review: Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice, by Todd E. Vachon","authors":"Brendan Davidson","doi":"10.1177/00197939231181084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231181084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81866123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1177/00197939231181083
S. Frenkel
{"title":"Book review: Stitching Governance for Labour Rights: Towards Transnational Industrial Democracy?, by Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey","authors":"S. Frenkel","doi":"10.1177/00197939231181083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231181083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82080474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/00197939231175052
J. Burrell
{"title":"Book Review: Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, by Karen Levy","authors":"J. Burrell","doi":"10.1177/00197939231175052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939231175052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91164502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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