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Browsing The Worker Institute by Subject "labor movement"
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Labor Action Tracker: Annual Report 2022
(Cornell University, ILR School, The Workers Institute, 2023)2022 was yet another important year for the US labor movement, with organizing victories at major private employers and an increase in strikes across the country from the prior year. We are pleased to release the second ... -
Labor and Global Justice: Emerging Reform Coalitions in the World's Only Superpower
(2004-01-01)This paper examines rejuvenated labor, environmental and campus movements in the U.S., in case studies of living wage, anti-sweatshop, sustainable development and Justice for Janitors campaigns. The cases offer surprising ... -
Letter to the Editor, <i>New Labor Forum</i>
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Bill Fletcher and Rick Hurd have shined a critical light on a vital issue facing the labor movement. They have asked, but not yet answered, how the AFL-ClO's "Organizing for Change, Changing to Organize" program ... -
Making Transnational Collaboration Work
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] The need for transnational collaboration among unions across the world is great and growing in the global economy. Case studies presented in this book demonstrate the active fermentation in cross-border relations ... -
Passion for Justice’
(2011-07-01)[Excerpt] Drawing on my experience and contacts, I advise and assist ILR students who are interested in working in the labor movement or other social justice organizations. Today's students seem more focused and practical ... -
Paths to Global Social Regulation – What Can Americans Learn from the European Union
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] For American proponents of global justice, social Europe appears distant yet inspirational, with all its weaknesses still a "vanguard" model for the social regulation of the global economy. We believe that a great ... -
Perils of the High and Low Roads: Employment Relations in the United States and Germany
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The U.S. crisis is characterized by growing income inequality, a shrinking safety net, and the decline of worker representation. Like the German crisis, it is caused in part by intensified global competition. ... -
Political Insiders and Social Activists: Coalition Building in New York and Los Angeles
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Why have labor movements in New York City and Los Angeles changed so dramatically? And more specifically, why have the activist social coalitions that revitalized the labor movement in Los Angeles not played the ... -
Puerto Ricans, Politics, and Labor Activism
(1984-01-11)[Excerpt] Puerto Rican electoral activism in urban America is a relatively recent development. When we contrast electoral activism with labor activism, we find that Puerto Rican participation in the labor movement generally ... -
Rank-and-File Participation in Organizing at Home and Abroad
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] We know that we need labor law reform. But it is also clear that this is not all we need; nor can we expect to achieve legal reform simply by electing Democrats. That strategy did not work in 1978-79 or in 1993-94, ... -
Revitalizing Labor In Today's World Markets
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] Competitiveness for firms is possible via the high road or low road, or some combination of the two. For a nation, however, if competitiveness means the ability of a country's firms to sell on world markets while ... -
Revival of the American Labor Movement: Issues, Problems, Prospects
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this book is to examine union revitalization efforts: to identify central developments, to analyze strengths and weaknesses in the new initiatives, and to assessprogress made and prospects for the ... -
Reviving the American Labor Movement: Institutions and Mobilization
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] The reawakening of the American labor movement under new leadership with new strategic orientations is a remarkable chapter in late 20thcentury American economic and political history. Given up for dead by so ... -
Reviving the Labor Movement: A Comparative Perspective
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] In recent years, the long-declining U.S. labor movement has refocused in new and promising ways on rank-and-file mobilization, in organizing drives, collective bargaining conflicts and political campaigns. Such ... -
Serving the Public Interest: Preventing Double-Breasting in the Construction Industry
(2007-10-17)Excerpt] But the immediate question I am addressing is how the practice of double-breasting undermines the stability of collective bargaining in the construction industry. The simple answer is that it is not exceedingly ... -
The Europeanization of Labour: Structure Before Action
(1996-01-01)At national level, the development of effective labour movements has involved the interaction of two processes: the establishment of formal organizational structures, and the rise of rank-and-file pressure and protest. At ... -
The New Solidarity? Trade Union Coalition-Building in Five Countries
(2004-01-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this chapter is to present a framework for the analysis of union coalition-building and demonstrate its utility using comparative empirical material mainly from the United States, Germany, and the ... -
The Politics of the Labor Movement Revitalization: The Need for a Revitalized Perspective
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] Unions everywhere are struggling. Globalization, with its supporting neo-liberal ideology, encourages employers and governments to push vigorously against the constraints of employment regulation. Unions have to ... -
The Politics of Work Reorganization: Pervasive Union Decline?
(1991-01-01)[Excerpt] These are hard times for unions. There is currently a broad cross-national trend toward the decentralization of bargaining in industrial relations, which challenges established bases of union influence everywhere. ... -
Three Good Steward Habits
(2011-01-01)[Excerpt] I learned these habits from a former colleague, Jessica Govea Thourborne, who developed them when she was one of the founding members of the United Farm Workers Union with Caesar Chavez. Cancer took Jessica from ...
