Memories of Labor, Identities of the Time: Workers and Intellectuals in Korea’s Labor Movement of the 1980s

2019 ◽  
pp. 257-279
Author(s):  
Keong-il Kim
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement

The Thai Labor Movement

Asian Survey ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 931-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bevars D. Mabry
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement

Where is Our Labor Movement Going?

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
I. G. Shablinskii
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement

O mundo urbano do trabalho no alvorecer da industrialização: o caso da Península de Setúbal

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana Dias Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Industrial Areas

This article main goal is to deepen the understanding both a spatial reality and a historical process – the emergency of industrial areas and workers communities.  It seeks to illustrate, through an empirical and monographic research, several territorial and spatial phenomena related to the germination of intricate social networks in the workers neighborhoods and villages and the rise of the labor movement. It attempts to demonstrate that, if many questions still prevail concerning the relationships between economic structure and political action, it is clear that the origin of the workers mass associations is deeply related with industrialization, urbanization and the sociability framework resulting of both processes.

Organizing in the 1970s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily E. LB. Twarog
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
National Organization ◽  
Consumer Activism ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family

In 1973, housewives in California launched what would be the last meat boycott of the twentieth century. And, like its predecessors, the 1973 boycott gained national momentum albeit with little political traction now that Peterson had left public life for a job in the private sector as the consumer advisor to the Giant grocery store chain. And in some quarters of the labor movement, activists drew very clear links between the family economy and the stagnation plaguing workers’ wages. The 1973 boycott led to the founding of the National Consumers Congress, a national organization intended to unite consumer organizers. While it was a short-lived organization, it demonstrates the momentum that consumer activism was building. This chapter also reflects on the lost coordinating opportunity between housewives organizing around consumer issues and the women’s movement in the 1970s.

Heartland Blues

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Industrial Decline ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Effective Organization ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
Labor Conflicts ◽  
Death Knell

Heartland Blues provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the 1950s and analyzing campaigns over right-to-work laws and public-sector collective bargaining rights in the industrial Midwest. The focus on 1950s labor conflicts, including union failures, departs from popular and academic treatments of the period that emphasize consensus, an accord between capital and labor in collective bargaining, or the conservative drift and bureaucratization of the labor movement. The state campaigns examined in Heartland Blues instead reveal a labor movement often beset by dysfunctional divisions, ambivalent political allies, and substantial employer opposition. Drawing on social movement theories, the book shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for activist groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at its historical peak but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. These limits slowed unions in the 1950s. Not only did labor fail to crack the Sunbelt, it never really conquered the industrial Midwest, where most union members resided in the mid-twentieth century. This diminished union influence within the Democratic Party and in society. The 1950s are far more than an interesting side story. Indeed, the labor movement never solved many of these basic problems. The labor movement’s social and political isolation and its limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the coming decades as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide.

The Expert in the Labor Movement

1951 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kermit Eby
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement
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