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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Social Movement Unionism"”.
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Between bureaucracy and social movements : careers in the justice for janitors
… drew a sharp dichotomy between bureaucratic unionism, which they viewed as the dominant institutional form of American unions, and social movement unionism. But more recently, scholars have argued that the environment has shifted, leading American unions to move away from traditional policies …
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Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia, 2000-2005
… as well as the core tenets of mainstream social movement studies. The central argument is that a specific combination of elaborate infrastructures of class struggle and social-movement unionism, historical traditions of indigenous and working-class radicalism, combined oppositional …
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Social movement trade unionism: An investigation of workers’ perceptions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions practices on election and living wage issues
… on elections and living wage issues from a social movement perspective from the Apartheid (South Africa) and Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Zimbabwe) eras to 2009. The trade union social movement perspective refers to labour movements that develop a socio-political character, and …
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Solidarity Sometimes: Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Labor Movement
… opportunity structures, and the adoption of a social union or social movement unionism paradigm for union revitalization. Additionally, I identify three factors that inhibit labor transnationalism among national unions: diminishing resources, turf wars, and cultural barriers. I introduce the …
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An Elusive Victory - Egyptian Workers Challenge the Regime (2006-2012)
… and informal organizations as a contentious social movement to challenge the regime. It will examine the evolving role of workers as socio-economic actors and then as political actors in political transitions. Social Movement Theory (SMT) and its mechanisms and Social Movement Unionism (SMU) …
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Teacher union involvement in the English for the Children ballot initiative campaigns
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms