Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0160449x211015466
Danise C Miller
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0160449x211015492
M. Childers
{"title":"Book Review: Invisible People: Stories of Lives at the Margins, edited by Tizon, Alex, and Sam Howe Verhovek","authors":"M. Childers","doi":"10.1177/0160449x211015492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449x211015492","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35267,"journal":{"name":"Labor Studies Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"214 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0160449x211015492","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45917261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-28DOI: 10.1177/0160449X211017987
Matthew Fischer-Daly
While precarious employment expands, instances of workers improving employment standards motivate examination of the dynamics of advancing decent work. This article analyzes cases of workers shifting from precarious toward decent work in U.S. agribusiness. Building on bargaining-power theory from industrial relations and human development theory from sociological philosophy, it finds that workers build power resources sequentially and by demanding human dignity. The cases reveal a framework of power building by workers facing precarious work in which progress is catalyzed by the recognition of workers’ capacity to participate in the rules to which they are subjected. The framework suggests an explication for precarious employment’s growth and decline.
{"title":"Human Dignity and Power: Worker Struggles against Precarity in U.S. Agribusiness","authors":"Matthew Fischer-Daly","doi":"10.1177/0160449X211017987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X211017987","url":null,"abstract":"While precarious employment expands, instances of workers improving employment standards motivate examination of the dynamics of advancing decent work. This article analyzes cases of workers shifting from precarious toward decent work in U.S. agribusiness. Building on bargaining-power theory from industrial relations and human development theory from sociological philosophy, it finds that workers build power resources sequentially and by demanding human dignity. The cases reveal a framework of power building by workers facing precarious work in which progress is catalyzed by the recognition of workers’ capacity to participate in the rules to which they are subjected. The framework suggests an explication for precarious employment’s growth and decline.","PeriodicalId":35267,"journal":{"name":"Labor Studies Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"369 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0160449X211017987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42408310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-02DOI: 10.1177/0160449X211003213
Ricardo D. Martínez-Schuldt, J. Hagan, Deborah M. Weissman
We investigate the role of the Mexican government in assisting migrant workers in the labor claims-making process across three consular jurisdictions in the United States. Our analysis of administrative documents finds that consular support varies in relation to the local context within which consulates operate and depends on the circumstances of labor issues. We argue that binational claims, which involve migrants that have returned to Mexico, emerge in local economies characterized by cyclical migration of temporary workers and necessitate particular forms of consular support. This study reveals the diverse ways consulates assist workers and offers insight on how local contexts shape consular support.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01Epub Date: 2019-08-09DOI: 10.1177/0160449X19868771
John S Morawetz, Tom Frazee, Ruth Ruttenberg
Worker trainers not only teach health and safety in the classroom setting but also serve informally as important peer resources on the shop floor. They are often the "go to" people, for both hourly workers and managers, when there is a health or safety question-be it about tank vapors or personal protective equipment, confined space, or specific chemicals. These worker trainers actively use health and safety resource materials, both hard copy and online. Documented here, through two surveys of worker trainers-at U.S. Department of Energy facilities, trained through the International Chemical Workers Union Council Consortium of the Worker Training Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences-is documentation of this additional contribution that worker trainers make toward safer and more healthful work places.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0160449x20987906
L. Lopez
{"title":"Book Review: Labor in the Time of Trump by Kerrissey, Jasmine, Eve Weinbaum, Claire Hammonds, Tom Juravich, and Dan Clawson, eds","authors":"L. Lopez","doi":"10.1177/0160449x20987906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449x20987906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35267,"journal":{"name":"Labor Studies Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"87 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0160449x20987906","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45804741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0160449x20985347
Douglas Swanson
{"title":"Book Review: Hoffa in Tennessee, The Chattanooga Trial That Brought Down an Icon, by Maury Nicely","authors":"Douglas Swanson","doi":"10.1177/0160449x20985347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449x20985347","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35267,"journal":{"name":"Labor Studies Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"91 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0160449x20985347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42493723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0160449X20982142
John Lepley
the “white working class” and explains how the working class is simultaneously objectified, fetishized, and antagonized by right-wing actors. In the last essay, Donald Cohen’s analysis takes us through how stunningly bipartisan and successful the privatization of public resources and public workers has been. Like Lafer, he offers ideas for building issue-based agendas around a revitalization of the “public good,” aligning popular opinion with actual legislation. The collection of essays in Part III—Challenges and Coalition Opportunities focuses on three issues creating tension in the labor movement: the environment, immigration, and police brutality. Lara Skinner begins this section by recalling Mazzochi’s concept of “just transitions” of workers as a foundational concept when confronting the tensions between labor and environmentalists. Shannon Gleeson addresses the tension between labor and immigration by analyzing labor’s social media and public statements. She also provides concrete examples of alliances between central labor councils and interfaith presenting organized responses and alliances between Black Lives Matter and immigration organizations in response to Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and nativist dog-whistle politics. Finally, Cedric Johnson’s essay positions the carceral state and hyper-policing as a post war response to the positioning of the urban poor and surplus workers against the “middle-class.” Part IV—Labor Strategies and Responses explores strategies for building power in a nationalist climate. MaryBe McMillan begins by describing successful campaigns that expose the stark contradictions between privatization and the interests of the working people around attacks on public education. She emphasizes that internal education campaigns on cross-cultural solidarity (as a foundational tenet of the labor movement) should be revitalized, as should the revitalization of boycotts. Then, Jennifer Klein describes the unionization of the fastest growing occupation, and one that is dominated by women of color: home health workers who may organize with or without recognition. Kyla Walter’s piece on a successful campaign in Massachusetts to curtail the advancement of charter schools as a back door to the privatization of public schools again connects the contradictory agendas between the market and the public. Labor in the Time of Trump comes at a time when workers are faced with misinformation, racial division, skyrocketing unemployment, and economic inequality, but reminds us of the commonality of our strengths: cross-cultural solidarity, advocates of public good, and optimism of the will.
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