Benefits of Adopting a Collection Action Approach in Researching the Role of Rhetoric in Change in Labor Organizations

• In Event: Rhetorics of Social Change

Abstract

Some change attempts at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)have succeed while others fail in seemingly analogous situations. Understanding how communication functions can help the labor movement sustain successful change. This paper calls for more studies on labor and recommends using an integrated collective action approach to help understand how rhetoric can influence change in the labor movement.

Author

• Amber Burkett Peplow, Wright State University