"We are a force to be reckoned with": Black and Latina women's leadership in the contemporary U.S. labor movement

Article Abstract:

An investigation into how women of color within the US labor movement are working for structural change within the institution to increase the voice of women and people of color in the movement is presented to explore the significant impact these women are having on the institution of labor. It explores the factors that propelled and continue to motivate their careers, as well as the effect their leadership has on the labor movement's agenda with respect to diversity.

United States, Management dynamics, Management, Company business management, Labor leaders, Labor activists, Labour activists, Hispanic American women, African American women

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Organizing for (spare) change?: a radical politics for American labor

Article Abstract:

The comparative experience of labor movements in different countries, showing the importance of strategies broader than the shift from business unionism is presented. The unionEs ability to organize the margins of the labor market, to act collectively across local union organizations and police their own labor standards, and to pursue political and institutional change through social movements of noncompliance and resistance is highlighted.

Social movements

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The failure of organizing, the new unity partnership, and the future of the labor movement

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Union fortunes continue to decline in the United States and as a result of this crisis in 2003 five major unions have formed the New Unity Partnership (NUP). It is noted that the NUP unions themselves have not been able to achieve increased density on a national scale but broaches the notion that organizational transformation is required.

African Americans

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