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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 302
Utgivningsdatum: 2010-11-10
Upplaga: New ed
Förlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Medarbetare: Phelan, Craig (series ed.)
Illustratör/Fotograf: num tables and graphs
Illustrationer: tables and graphs
Dimensioner: 224 x 150 x 18 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
ISSN: 1662-7784
ISBN: 9783034301329

Organizing the Organized

Name: Organizing the Organized
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Author: Laura Ariovich
ISBN: 9783034301329

Trade Union Renewal, Organizational Change and Worker Activism in Metropolitan America

av Laura Ariovich

Häftad, Engelska, 2010-11-10

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This book studies a best-practices example of what is known as the organizing local approach to union renewal. Several unions in the US, the UK, and other countries have embraced this model of unionism as a formula for labor revitalization. Organizing locals aim to strengthen unions by redeploying resources and mobilizing workers around the goal of member recruitment. The union local under study stands out as an exceptional case within the US context. Against the backdrop of a languishing labor movement, this local has succeeded at recruiting workers and keeping its members engaged. The book seeks to unpack this success and examine closely what works, what does not, and how things work. The research design relies on participant observation and in-depth interviews to examine how formal systems of representation and macro-organizing strategies and platforms get translated into micro-level processes, experiences, and relationships. By adopting a micro-social approach, the author reveals what drives union activism in an organizing local, beyond the rhetoric of union officials. Further, the findings identify the conditions for successful union reform, and show formal and informal mechanisms for accommodating opposite orientations in union work, attending to members expectations of union help, and changing the status quo through organizing.

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Money and Credit

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Laura Ariovich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and traveled to the United States with a Fulbright Foreign Fellowship to conduct her doctoral studies. She received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in June 2007. After her graduation, she returned to Argentina and joined a research project at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, University of Buenos Aires, as a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Agencia Nacional de Promocin Cientfica y Tecnolgica. She is currently working in applied research in the Washington, DC metro area.

Contents: Organizational Change, Practical Knowledge, and Informal Exchange Union Activists and Union Activism Reforms in the Residential Division: Service at the Expense of Organizing Reforms in the Southern Shore: Organizing at the Expense of Service Reforms in the Northern Shore: Learning to Balance Service and Organizing.