Organizing the jungle: Industrial restructuring and immigrant unionization in the American meatpacking industry

Article Abstract:

A case study of an organizing campaign of Latino immigrant meatpacking workers in South Omaha is used to explore the effects of industrial restructuring on workers' bargaining power. It is suggested that contemporary meatpacking workers are highly receptive to unionization and that the decline in worker bargaining power in meatpacking is the result of industrial restructuring and organized labor's inability to resist or adapt to such restructuring.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Personnel administration, Meat Products, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Meat industry, Alien labor, Meat industry workers, Alien labour, Foreign labor

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Alliances across the border: US labor in the era of globalization

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The author argues that the onset of globalization has accelerated the need for international solidarity amongst the workforce. The relationship between globalization and corporations' treatment of employees, the history of the international labor movement, and the impact of unions on public policies are examined.

Social aspects, Management, Economic aspects, International aspects, International economic relations, Solidarity

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Building a movement: Revitalizing labor in Miami

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Miami's demographic, economic and political context within which the local labor movement operates and profiles the local labor movement is examined. The efforts made to reinforce the infrastructure, focus coalition work, and to stimulate and sustain national union organizing investment in the area is reviewed.

Florida, Miami, Florida, Labour movement

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