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A significant amount of the promising labor movement activity is occurring outside the traditional unions and collective bargaining framework. Through an in-depth examination of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles this paper explores the potential of one type of alternative labor movement organization and assesses the role it might play in revitalizing the US labor movement. Based on data gathered from participant observation and interviews with staff and workers I conclude that the Center’s efforts to build community, raise political consciousness and address the immediate material needs of workers, represents a long-term movement-building strategy that may be an appropriate orientation for labor as it shifts to a social movement footing. |
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| Sullivan, Richard. "Do Unions Make us Strong? Worker Centers as Alternative Labor Movement Organizations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p23189_index.html> |
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| Sullivan, R. , 2005-08-12 "Do Unions Make us Strong? Worker Centers as Alternative Labor Movement Organizations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p23189_index.html |
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Abstract: A significant amount of the promising labor movement activity is occurring outside the traditional unions and collective bargaining framework. Through an in-depth examination of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles this paper explores the potential of one type of alternative labor movement organization and assesses the role it might play in revitalizing the US labor movement. Based on data gathered from participant observation and interviews with staff and workers I conclude that the Center’s efforts to build community, raise political consciousness and address the immediate material needs of workers, represents a long-term movement-building strategy that may be an appropriate orientation for labor as it shifts to a social movement footing. |
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| DO UNIONS MAKE US STRONG? Worker Centers as Alternative Labor Movement Organizations Paper submitted for consideration American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2005 Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Richard Sullivan Illinois State University January 20 2005 Abstract A significant amount of the promising labor movement activity is occurring outside the traditional unions and collective bargaining framework. Through an in-depth examination of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles this paper explores the potential of one type of alternative labor movement organization and assesses |
| 2001. "Exploitation and Abuse in the Garment Industry: The Case of the Thai Slave-Labor Compound in El Monte." in Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Southern California edited by M. Lopez-Garza and D. R. Diaz. Stanford CA: Stanford U Press. Sullivan Richard. 2004a. "Mapping the Dimensions of Labor Revitalization: Movement Innovators Survey the California Frontier." Sociological Focus 37:251-268. —. 2004b. ""Remedies for Labor Revitalization: Prescriptions from Organizers Community Activists Union Leaders and Labor Scholars"." |
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