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Browsing The Worker Institute by Subject "labor movement"
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A New Alliance in New York State: A Progress Report on the Labor Movement’s Restructuring, Capacity Building, and Programmatic Work
(2006-11-30)The labor movement in New York State has undergone a dramatic restructuring that is part of a national AFL-CIO program called the New Alliance. The purpose of the New Alliance is to build the capacity of local labor movements ... -
Advantages of Backwardness: Lessons for Social Europe from the American Labour Movement
(2007-04-01)[Excerpt] In the crisis of declining union influence, the United States has played a vanguard role. The weakness of labour in the U.S. has opened the door to the neoliberal policies developed here and then imposed on the ... -
Ask the Jobless If Marx Is Relevant
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Awakening the Giant: The Revitalization of the American Labor Movement
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The key to the contemporary revival of the American labor movement is precisely a renewed mobilization of the rank and file. Based on our combined research and work in labor education and representation, we believe ... -
Building Labor’s Power in California: Raising Standards and Expanding Capacity Among Central Labor Councils, The State Labor Federation, and Union Affiliates
(2008-11-11)[Excerpt] For several years, the California Labor Federation has been engaged in a strategic planning process that began with a critical evaluation of a political setback in 2004 – losing an important statewide ballot ... -
Building Social Movement Unionism: The Transformation of the American Labor Movement
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] In the United States, the renewed energy displayed by the labor movement is particularly promising. From organizing drives to strike victories to legislative campaigns, labor's renewed influence in the American ... -
Conclusion: Markets, Strategies, and Institutions in Comparative Perspective
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt If this had been another collection of country case studies, it would now be possible to map out the similarities and differences across the cases covered, possibly in a figure describing various IR-related issues ... -
Construction or De-construction? The Road to Revival in the Building Trades
(2007-04-01)[Excerpt] The building and construction trades have historically been one of the most stable and secure sectors of the American labor movement. In the period immediately after World War II, their power in the construction ... -
Construction Organizing: A Case Study of Success
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter examines how IBEW Local 611, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reversed its decline and between 1988 and 1994 reemerged as a dominant force in its jurisdiction. What the local did, how it did it, and ... -
Fanning the Flames (After Lighting the Spark): Multi-Trade COMET Programs
(1998-07-14)[Excerpt] The COMET (Construction Organizing Membership Education Training) is an educational program utilized by building trades unions to generate rank and file support for organizing new members. Since 1996, the Building ... -
From Transformation to Revitalization: A New Research Agenda for a Contested Global Economy
(2005-01-01)[Excerpt] The revitalization perspective is hardly new. With deep roots in both labor movement history and industrial relations research, such work was marginalized for much of the postwar period both in union strategy and ... -
Globalization and the Logic of Participation: Unions and the Politics of Coalition Building
(2006-01-01)Global liberalization is driving a 'logic of participation', for firms and unions alike. Economic pressures drive managers to innovate across a range of possibilities, from outsourcing and union busting to work reorganization ... -
Globalization, Participation, and the Renewal of the Labor Movement
(2004-01-01)In dangerous times, in a post-Cold War political landscape in which a settled "New World Order" has yet to emerge, continuing globalization brings enormous challenges. For labor unions, the pressures are intense and have ... -
Going Global
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] What power can counter the growing strength of MNCs and the forces of globalization? National governments have an important role to play, singly and together, as do international institutions of regulation such ... -
Human Resource Strategy for Labor Unions: Oxymoron, Chimera or Contributor to Revival
(2011-05-01)While the need for revival strategies for the labor movement has stimulated much discussion and research, little or no attention has been paid to the role of HR strategies for unions. This paper addresses the question, ... -
Introduction: A Wide-Angle Lens for a Global Marketplace
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt] We hope in this volume to accomplish three things. First, we hope to meet the wide and growing demand in the IR community for a better understanding of industrial relations developments abroad. That is, we would ... -
Introduction: An Urban Resurgence of Social Unionism
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] The essays presented here examine the emergence, successes, and failures of contemporary urban-based labor movements, especially in the United States, where such developments are most significant, but also in the ... -
Invisible No More: The Role of Training and Education in Increasing Union Activism of Chinese Home Care Workers in Local 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE)
(2008-03-01)[Excerpt] In 2002 only a small number of Chinese home care workers represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE) were involved in their union. Language, unfamiliarity with unions in the United States, and, ... -
Is There A Women’s Way Of Organizing? Genders, Unions, and Effective Organizing
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] Between spring of 2008 and summer 2009, Cornell ILR Labor Programs faculty, staff, and students conducted a project to investigate and analyze several recent examples of women-focused union organizing campaigns. ... -
Labor Action Tracker: Annual Report 2021
(2022)[Excerpt] 2021 was a dramatic year for the US labor movement, with an upsurge in strike activity that gained extensive media attention. In light of ongoing speculation about the scope of these actions, we are particularly ...
