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358 - Section on Labor and Labor Movements Paper Session. A Question of Scale: Where and How to Mobilize Worker Rights
Mon, August 18, 8:30 to 10:10am, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session
Abstract
This panel will focus on the scale, strategies, and broader politics of worker organizing primarily in the contemporary US, but also globally and with case studies of other countries. It will broadly address different "terrains of struggle" and sites of intervention - from electoral politics, corporate campaigns, community coalitions, and new forms of legal mobilization.
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Individual Presentations
Labor Power and Governance: Theorizing a New Terrain of Struggle - Jamie McCallum, Middlebury College
Understanding How to Revitalize the Labor Movement by Analyzing Alinsky’s Legacy - Jane McAlevey, City University of New York-Graduate Center
Space, Opportunities and Labor Protest Across Political Regimes: Chilean Metalworkers’ Mobilization, 1945-2011 - Joel P. Stillerman, Grand Valley State University
The National Labor Relations Act in the Non-unionized Workplace: Workers’ Mobilization of Section 7 - Jessica Garrick, University of Michigan
Our Time to Speak is Now: Electoral Tactics in Defending Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Rights - Amanda Pullum, University of California-Irvine