After the Organizing Ends

Workers, Self-Efficacy, Activism, and Union Frameworks

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2485023
AutoresLinda Markowitz (0000-0002-5222-9259, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas356-382
Fecha de publicación1998-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Problems (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3097191
OpenAlexW2092406876
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas28

Because union organizing is commonly studied as a single event rather than the beginning of a process, little is understood about how union organizing strategies continue to affect workers after campaigns end. In this article, I analyze interviews with workers organized by two union campaign strategies, the "comprehensive campaign" and the "blitz," which differ significantly in the degree of participation they foster among the rank and file. I apply Carole Pateman's (1970) participatory democracy theory and Erving Goffman's (1974) framework analysis to understand the meanings workers invoke to understand the campaigns and their relations to the unions. By looking at three stages within these two union organizing processes, I examine the ways that worker activism diffuses after the campaigns and across organizations

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