No One Size Fits All : Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age (Lera Research Volume)

Fine, Janice (EDT)/ Burnham, Linda (EDT)/ Griffith, Kati (EDT)

Labor and Employment Research Association（2018/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780913447161
• DDC分類 331.880973

Full Description

Workers and their organizations are facing enormous obstacles today. Corporations wield immense power, not only in the marketplace but also in politics, which has, for many years, effectively blocked the updating of antiquated laws governing labor relations. Instead, unions have been subjected to a steady onslaught of attacks at the state level and growing hostility from the US Supreme Court. They have all but lost basic protections that the legal system once provided—making organizing, bargaining, and striking increasingly difficult. Black workers continue to face a decades-long job crisis characterized by disproportionate unemployment (compared with White workers) and poor job quality. Immigrant workers of all statuses feel the threat of exclusionary immigration policies and heightened xenophobic rhetoric coming from the top echelons of the US government.

Similar to worker organizing in the United States before the New Deal contract, organizations in the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been scrambling to find leverage within an increasingly hostile economic, political, and legal environment. Despite formidable obstacles, this volume shows that vibrant, creative experimentation has never ceased. In lieu of new federal regulation, public and private sector national unions and local affiliates have been actively trying out new approaches that pair organizing with mechanisms that support bargaining. They have doubled down on electoral politics and creative policy fights to raise standards and facilitate organizing, with an unprecedented focus on low-wage workers. They have forged closer, more equal partnerships with community organizations than ever before. Still much more work needs to be done.

New organizational models are also emergent. These experiments, which include worker centers and what some refer to as "alt labor" groups, diverge from traditional labor unions in a number of ways. They aim to represent workers and their workplace interests but do not typically work within the New Deal collective bargaining construct regulated by the government.

Contents

Introduction
Section One: Building Organization
1. Understanding Worker Center Trajectories
2. Sizing Up Worker Center Income (2008-2014): A Study of Revenue Size, Stability, and Streams
3. Labor Unions/Worker Center Relationships, Joint Efforts, and Experiences
4. Union Organizing, Advocacy, and Services at the Nexus of Immigrant and Labor Rights
5. The National Black Worker Center Project: Grappling with the Power-Building Imperative
6. "Greedy" Institutions or Beloved Communities? Assessing the Job Satisfaction of Organizers
7. Innovative Union Strategies and the Struggle to Reinvent Collective Bargaining
8. The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test: Rebuilding Working-Class Power Through Mass Participation Strikes
Section Two: Bargaining
9. Bargaining for the Common Good: An Emerging Tool for Rebuilding Worker Power
10. A Primer on 21st-Century Bargaining
Section Three: State and Local Policy
11. "$15 and a Union": Searching for Workers' Power in the Fight for $15 Movement
12. Governing the Market from Below: Setting Labor Standards at the State and Local Levels
13. Expanding Domestic Worker Rights in the 21st Century: Statewide Campaigns for Domestic Worker Bills of Rights
Section Four: Working Up the Chain
14. Worker-Driven Social Responsibility: A Replicable Model for the Protection of Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
15. Taming Globalization: Raising Labor Standards Across Supply Chains
16. Mobilizing High-Road Employers and Private SectorStrategies: National Domestic Workers Alliance
17. Union-Cooperative Alliances: Conditions for Realizing Their Transformational Potential