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Warren, Dorian Tod.

A new labor movement for a new century? The incorporation of marginalized workers in United States unions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A new labor movement for a new century? The incorporation of marginalized workers in United States unions.
Author:	Warren, Dorian Tod.
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Director: Cathy J. Cohen.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4173.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194721
ISBN:	9780542395017

A new labor movement for a new century? The incorporation of marginalized workers in United States unions.
Warren, Dorian Tod.

A new labor movement for a new century? The incorporation of marginalized workers in United States unions. - 384 p.

Director: Cathy J. Cohen.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

By developing and testing a new hypothesis, I assess unions' behavior with explicit attention to marginalized workers: workers of color, women workers, and gay and lesbian workers. Utilizing a nested analysis approach by combining quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analyses including an original survey of national and Chicago-area labor unions, in-depth interviews with union leaders, primary sources, and ethnography, I find that there is great variation in unions' incorporation of marginalized workers. My thesis is that, ceteris paribus, the extent, levels and type of union incorporation of historically excluded groups of workers is best explained by internal organizational factors, or what I call a union's organizing capacity. I argue that these internal institutional factors play a significant role in determining union behavior. This is in contrast to existing literature and scholars' emphases on the influence of external structural and political factors. In addition, I examine one of several possible processes by which labor unions change to incorporate marginalized workers. Through an in-depth case study of Chicago-based UNITE-HERE Local 1, I analyze one union's efforts to incorporate marginalized workers and address the multiple inequalities they face, particularly ascriptive inequalities structured around race, ethnicity and gender. This transformation calls into question basic assumptions about stasis and change in political organizations. This research also shows that the assumed divisions between class and identity can be transformed into a basis for the mobilization of previously excluded groups within unions.

ISBN: 9780542395017Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

A new labor movement for a new century? The incorporation of marginalized workers in United States unions.
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