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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"labor organizing"”.
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Contestation and collectivies: protecting labor organizing rights in the global economy.
… of treaties protecting international labor organizing rights, states do not necessary comply with these rights under the current period of economic globalization. This is because the foundational conditions of these norms--specific to the political, ethical and economic concerns of the …
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The Geographies of the $15 Wage Movement: New Union Campaigns, Mobility Politics, and Local Minimum Wage Policies
… fieldwork and 101 interviews with policymakers, labor union staff, and activists, it argues that the $15 wage movement is an example of a broader shift in labor organizing that has taken root in the last decade, which takes labor organizing out of its traditional location within workplaces and …
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Voices of Latino/a immigrants in southeast Michigan: Beyond the criminal/Victim dichotomy
<p>Following humanitarian, social justice, and labor organizing traditions that readily incorporate Latino immigrants’ voices into their work, and drawing upon postmodern, feminist, and activist schools of thought, this study illuminates the history of immigration policy and discourse in America …
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Falling Forward: The Governance of School Reform, Race, and the Contest for a Dignified Future in Newark, N.J.
… Black political machine power, creation of a labor market for charter school teachers, ongoing contestation attempts by public educators in inert unions. These questions correspond to theoretical debates about contemporary forms of racism and the reproduction of neoliberal hegemony, the …
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Living by the Sword: Religiosity and the Terrorist Subculture of Russian Revolutionaries, 1904-1910
… Unlike other forms of struggle, principally labor organizing, the function of terror was sensationalized spectacle. The act of murder not only removed an undesirable minister or governor, but was a triumph of popular will against an unjust and repressive system. As such, violence became …
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Employer-assisted housing in maquiladoras in Mexico : a case study of the Delphi Automotive Housing Program
… through the maquiladora program because of low labor costs due not only to low wages, but also because of low levels of employee benefits. Why then, would a foreign company voluntarily choose to increase employee benefits, implicitly as a substitute for increasing wages? This thesis will analyze …
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Latino Migrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2007
… rebuilding model that respected immigrant labor rights.