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A transnational advocacy network pressured corporations and government agencies to permit unionization in Nicaragua’s assembly-for-export garment factories (“maquilas”) beginning in 1996. U.S. solidarity organizations – such as Witness for Peace, Nicaragua Network, and the National Labor Committee – cooperated with Nicaraguan garment maquila workers and their Sandinista-aligned union leaders in a variety of ways. To varying degrees, these cooperative efforts relied on actions by individual U.S. activists. These activists participated in the campaign in various ways, including: travelling to Nicaragua or attending U.S. speaker tours to meet with maquila workers, sharing their experiences with other North Americans; faxing complaints to corporate and government officials; demonstrating at retail stores that sold clothes made in union-busting factories; and contributing funds to the solidarity organizations themselves. This paper uses data from semistructured interviews with activists intensively involved in the campaign to examine how their initial and continuing involvement was shaped by such factors as their locations in social networks, their relationships with the solidarity organizations, movement frames used by these organizations, and their own prior experiences. |
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Name: American Sociological Association
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| Wimberley, Dale. "Individual Activists in the Transnational Nicaragua Labor Rights Campaign" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110039_index.html> |
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| Wimberley, D. W. , 2004-08-14 "Individual Activists in the Transnational Nicaragua Labor Rights Campaign" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110039_index.html |
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Abstract: A transnational advocacy network pressured corporations and government agencies to permit unionization in Nicaragua’s assembly-for-export garment factories (“maquilas”) beginning in 1996. U.S. solidarity organizations – such as Witness for Peace, Nicaragua Network, and the National Labor Committee – cooperated with Nicaraguan garment maquila workers and their Sandinista-aligned union leaders in a variety of ways. To varying degrees, these cooperative efforts relied on actions by individual U.S. activists. These activists participated in the campaign in various ways, including: travelling to Nicaragua or attending U.S. speaker tours to meet with maquila workers, sharing their experiences with other North Americans; faxing complaints to corporate and government officials; demonstrating at retail stores that sold clothes made in union-busting factories; and contributing funds to the solidarity organizations themselves. This paper uses data from semistructured interviews with activists intensively involved in the campaign to examine how their initial and continuing involvement was shaped by such factors as their locations in social networks, their relationships with the solidarity organizations, movement frames used by these organizations, and their own prior experiences. |
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| Individual Activists in the Transnational Nicaragua Labor Rights Campaign Abstract for Proposed Roundtable Presentation Labor and Labor Movements Section ASA 2004 Annual Meeting Dale W. Wimberley Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg Virginia 24061 Voice 540-231-8960 Fax 540-213-3860 dale.wimberley@vt.edu January 15 2004 A transnational advocacy network pressured corporations and government agencies to permit unionization in Nicaragua’s assembly-for-export garment factories (“maquilas”) beginning in 1996. U.S. solidarity organizations – such as Witness for Peace Nicaragua Network and |
| at retail stores that sold clothes made in union-busting factories; and contributing funds to the solidarity organizations themselves. This paper uses data from semistructured interviews with activists intensively involved in the campaign to examine how their initial and continuing involvement was shaped by such factors as their locations in social networks their relationships with the solidarity organizations movement frames used by these organizations and their own prior experiences. Stuff removed from above but may be useful later: The solidarity |
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