Strategic Democracy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Bank Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Productive Process ◽  
Warehouse Workers ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Low Wages

Chapter 4 looks at the warehouse union in detail. The chapter explores workplace abuses, organizing strategy, and outcomes. Warehouse workers initially suffered poor working conditions and low wages, but today they earn significantly more than warehouse workers in Chile and even more than some warehouse workers in the U.S. The conceptual framework from Chapter 3 is brought to life by illustrating how the warehouse union engages in strategic democracy and looks at concrete outcomes. At the heart of their success is a strategy that creates conditions for workers to control the productive process and have significant structural leverage vis-à-vis Walmart.

scholarly journals Assessing the Influence of Living and Working Conditions on Alcohol Consumption in Migrant Farmworkers in Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Luis A. Valdez ◽  
Melanie L. Bell ◽  
David O. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Ordinal Logistic Regression ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Migrant Farmworkers ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Working And Living Conditions ◽  
The U.S

Background and Purpose: Inadequate working and living conditions are associated with alcohol consumption in farmworkers in the U.S. However, the influence of these factors on alcohol consumption patterns in migrant farmworkers in Mexico remains unclear. The purpose of this analysis was to assess the influence of housing and working conditions on alcohol use in migrant farmworkers in Mexico. Methods: We used logistic and ordinal logistic regression to examine the association of living and working conditions on alcohol consumption and frequency in 3,132 farmworkers in Mexico with data from a Mexican national farmworker’s survey. Results: Living in inadequately built homes (OR=0.84; 95% CI=0.72, 0.98; p

Pagan de Colon, Petroamerica

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Longres
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Department Of Labor ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
Employment Security ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Safe Working

Petroamerica Pagan de Colon (1911–1980), was a champion of employment, security, safe working conditions, and workers' rights for Puerto Ricans. She worked at the Departments of Education and Labor in Puerto Rico and then the U.S. Department of Labor.

Innovation, Market Orientation, and Organizational Learning: An Integration and Empirical Examination

1998 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Hurley ◽  
G. Tomas M. Hult
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
The U.S

Research on market orientation and organizational learning addresses how organizations adapt to their environments and develop competitive advantage. A significant void exists in current models of market orientation because none of the frameworks incorporates constructs related to innovation. The authors present a conceptual framework for incorporating constructs that pertain to innovation in market orientation research. Some of the critical relationships in this conceptual framework are tested among a sample of 9648 employees from 56 organizations in a large agency of the U.S. federal government. The results indicate that higher levels of innovativeness in the firms’ culture are associated with a greater capacity for adaptation and innovation (number of innovations successfully implemented). In addition, higher levels of innovativeness are associated with cultures that emphasize learning, development, and participative decision making. The authors make recommendations for incorporating constructs related to innovation into research on market orientation and organizational learning.

Lending a Hand to Labor: James Myers and the Federal Council of Churches, 1926–1947

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf ◽  
Ken Fones-Wolf
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Textile Workers ◽  
Industrial Conflict ◽  
Christian Century ◽  
Federal Council Of Churches ◽  
Low Wages

On 31 September 1929, James Myers, the industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches (FCC), arrived in Marion, North Carolina, to investigate the causes for the continuing industrial unrest that had swept across the southern textile industry since the spring. Shortly after Myers's arrival, as the textile workers attempted to picket the plant, sheriff's deputies fired into the crowd, killing six strikers and wounding twenty-five others. Myers's eulogy for the slain workers admonished the mill owners for the harsh working conditions and low wages, but mostly for their opposition to their workers' right to organize. He also scolded clergymen who argued that industrial conflict was “not the Church's business.” Over the ensuing months, Myers set an example of Christian involvement in labor unrest. He investigated the strike's impact on the community, he met with the governor, and he offered to help mediate the conflict. Dismayed by the suffering that he had uncovered, Myers also organized a relief campaign among church people on behalf of the families of the striking workers. Reflecting on Myers's efforts, the Christian Century declared that Myers stood “almost alone as representative of any active concern in the churches” in the midst of “appalling industrial warfare.” Otherwise, “the forces of organized religion would have to confess to an amazing indifference when confronted by the most acute industrial conflict of the year.”

Rise of the Rural-Industrial Workers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lou Martin
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Large Pool ◽  
Hancock County ◽  
Low Wages

This chapter looks at the rise of the rural-industrial workers. In the early 1900s, industrialists had believed that building new potteries and tinplate mills in rural Hancock County would result in more disciplined and loyal workforces, but they soon discovered that many of the conflicts they had had with craftsmen in urban centers followed them to the countryside. In the 1920s, owners in both industries began another round of technological innovation that reduced the power of skilled craftsmen and allowed managers to hire more unskilled laborers and semiskilled operatives, mostly from a large pool of rural migrants. In contrast to the skilled jiggermen and rollers, few of these rural migrants had any factory experience, but local employers were grateful for a steady stream of new workers that would accept low wages and harsh working conditions.

Work

The Age of Em ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Gender Imbalance ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Course Work ◽  
Labor Statistics ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
The U.S

Today, successful people in very competitive jobs, professions, and industries often work a great many hours per week. This makes it plausible that selection for em productivity will produce a world of ems who are also very hard-working, even “workaholic,” perhaps working two-thirds or more of their waking hours, or 12 hours or more per day. Today, people who are seen as “workaholics” tend to make more money, to be male, and to focus their socializing on scheduled times such as holidays. They also tend rise early to work alone and they often use stimulants ( Kemeny 2002 ; Currey 2013 ). These patterns weakly suggest that ems will also tend to be early rising males who use simulating mental tweaks and socialize more at standard scheduled events. (How an em world might deal with unequal numbers of males versus females is discussed in Chapter 23 , Gender Imbalance section.) In the U.S. today, people aged 15 and older do work and “work-related activities” an average of 25 hours per week. They also spend 3 hours on school, 12 hours on housework, and 20 hours watching TV ( Bureau of Labor Statistics 2013 ). However, from around 1820 to 1850 in the U.S., France, and Germany, men worked at jobs an average of 68 to 75 hours per week ( Voth 2003 ). For ems, work levels might return these 1820 to 1850 levels, or even exceed them. Of course “work” time includes gossip, news-following, and unstructured exploration to the extent that these activities are productive enough for work purposes. In addition to working more hours, em workers are likely to accept less pleasant working conditions, if such conditions are substantially more productive. during the industrial era, we have spent much of our increasing wealth on more pleasant working conditions, as well as on more consumption variety and on working fewer hours. poorer and more competitive ems are likely to reverse these trends, and accept more workplace drudgery. It is not clear, however, how much productive drudgery exists in the em world.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment relationships and development of social partnership in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Anatolievich Dovganenko
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Wages

Before the outbreak of the pandemic and a radical change in the social and labor situation in the country, the main sources of the beginning of confrontations between workers and employers were non-payment of wages, low wages and violations of working conditions. In the context of the spread of the coronavirus infection, the top three included "reductions in workers", displacing "low wages". These reasons determined the key and main problems faced by the majority of the country's citizens.

The Origins of the Seattle General Strike of 1919: The Timber Beast

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Cal Winslow
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Coastal Forests ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Lumber Industry ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The City ◽  
General Strike ◽  
Low Wages

Seattle in 1919 was an island in a still immeasurable sea of timber. The Pacific coastal forests were estimated to contain nearly two-thirds of the timber in the country, and the Washington State forests accounted for the largest part of these. The physical hardships associated with the lumber industry, including isolation deep within the rain forests, made working conditions an even more miserable burden than low wages. The work was seasonal and layoffs were common; the completion of one job might mean termination and the search for work elsewhere. When the winter rains brought an end to work in the woods, the state's loggers fled to the city, not welcome elsewhere. In some years, there might be thousands on Seattle's streets.

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