Chris Rhomberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Rhomberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Rhomberg |
| SIGNATURE | RHOMBERG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0662-0521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Authoritarian innovation in the United States: The role of dual subnational systems of labor governance
I apply Curato and Fossati's (2020) concept of “authoritarian innovation” to analyze historic changes in labor governance in the United States that have undermined democratic participation in the workplace and in the polity. Drawing from comparative political economy and welfare state theories, I argue that since the 1930s the U.S. has had not one unified, national labor regime but two competing, subnational regimes: the New Deal and its legacy i…
The struggle for a new labor regime: The US
This essay examines the American labor movement since the 2008 economic crisis. I begin with a brief review of the structural, institutional, and organizational conditions for labor before the crisis, including changes in employment and the labor force, the conflict between New Deal and anti-union labor regimes, and the emergence of new repertoires in the labor movement. These form the context for the financial crash, and the failure of policy to…
No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland
Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America. Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, Chris Rhomberg examines the city's successive episo…
Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China
Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain o…
Labor under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979 by Timothy Minchin
With around 12.5 million members in more than fifty affiliate unions, the AFL-CIO remains a standard-bearer for the struggles of the American labor movement over the last several decades. The Federation has been subjected to much critical analysis, but we have not had a detailed internal history of the organization, especially since the rise of global neoliberalism from around 1980. Timothy Minchin’s meticulously researched and clearly written bo…
Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota's Iron Range, 1915 -2000 by Jeffrey T. Manuel
The Runaway Production Complex? The Film Industry as a Driver of Urban Economic Revitalization in the United States
Cities and states across the United States have turned to cultural industries to revitalize their economies, but we argue that the dynamics of agglomeration and labor market governance are crucial to the prospects for local economic growth from these sectors. This paper analyzes recent changes in the American film industry, traditionally a “high road” model of flexible production and employment. We examine the rapid rise of state tax incentives a…
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post-Accord Labor Relations in the United States
This essay uses a deviant case analysis of the 1995–2000 Detroit newspaper strike to critique and revise theories of strike activity. As the formal institutions regulating industrial relations in the United States have declined, workplace struggles have expanded or reentered into other arenas of the state and civil society. In addition, the essay develops the methodological concept of a “signal juncture,” that is, moments of conflict that reveal …
Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938-1953
Compared to the reformism of the Progressive Era and the upheavals of the 1960s, midcentury Los Angeles city politics might seem to have transpired in a time of relative normalcy. Yet the period saw some of the city's greatest economic and physical changes, as well as conflicts focused on race, labor, and governmental power. Much of this controversy occurred under the administration of Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who served from 1938 to 1953. In this …
Beyond Strike Support: Labor-Community Alliances and Democratic Power in New Haven
This paper considers how low-income workers and urban residents can cooperate in their local communities through alliances among unions and community organizations. We focus on the case of the Connecti cut Center for a New Economy, a labor-community partnership that includes the unions who represent employees at Yale University. We begin by drawing concepts from debates in political theory and labor movement practice, and then analyze recent unio…
No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland
Journal Article No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland Get access No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland. By Rhomberg Chris. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 315 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Joseph A. Rodriguez Joseph A. Rodriguez University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
No There ThereRace, Class, and Political Community in Oakland: Race, class, and political community in Oakland
Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America. Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, Chris Rhomberg examines the city's successive episo…
People Power: Grass Roots Politics and Race Relations
Collective actors and urban regimes: Class formation and the 1946 Oakland General Strike
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China
Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain o…
Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post-Accord Labor Relations in the United States
This essay uses a deviant case analysis of the 1995–2000 Detroit newspaper strike to critique and revise theories of strike activity. As the formal institutions regulating industrial relations in the United States have declined, workplace struggles have expanded or reentered into other arenas of the state and civil society. In addition, the essay develops the methodological concept of a “signal juncture,” that is, moments of conflict that reveal …
Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
Beyond Strike Support: Labor-Community Alliances and Democratic Power in New Haven
This paper considers how low-income workers and urban residents can cooperate in their local communities through alliances among unions and community organizations. We focus on the case of the Connecti cut Center for a New Economy, a labor-community partnership that includes the unions who represent employees at Yale University. We begin by drawing concepts from debates in political theory and labor movement practice, and then analyze recent unio…
Collective actors and urban regimes: Class formation and the 1946 Oakland General Strike
Collective actors and urban regimes: Class formation and the 1946 Oakland General Strike
People Power: Grass Roots Politics and Race Relations
No There ThereRace, Class, and Political Community in Oakland: Race, class, and political community in Oakland
Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America. Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, Chris Rhomberg examines the city's successive episo…
Beyond Strike Support: Labor-Community Alliances and Democratic Power in New Haven
This paper considers how low-income workers and urban residents can cooperate in their local communities through alliances among unions and community organizations. We focus on the case of the Connecti cut Center for a New Economy, a labor-community partnership that includes the unions who represent employees at Yale University. We begin by drawing concepts from debates in political theory and labor movement practice, and then analyze recent unio…
No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland
Journal Article No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland Get access No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland. By Rhomberg Chris. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 315 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Joseph A. Rodriguez Joseph A. Rodriguez University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938-1953
Compared to the reformism of the Progressive Era and the upheavals of the 1960s, midcentury Los Angeles city politics might seem to have transpired in a time of relative normalcy. Yet the period saw some of the city's greatest economic and physical changes, as well as conflicts focused on race, labor, and governmental power. Much of this controversy occurred under the administration of Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who served from 1938 to 1953. In this …
Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post-Accord Labor Relations in the United States
This essay uses a deviant case analysis of the 1995–2000 Detroit newspaper strike to critique and revise theories of strike activity. As the formal institutions regulating industrial relations in the United States have declined, workplace struggles have expanded or reentered into other arenas of the state and civil society. In addition, the essay develops the methodological concept of a “signal juncture,” that is, moments of conflict that reveal …
Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
The Runaway Production Complex? The Film Industry as a Driver of Urban Economic Revitalization in the United States
Cities and states across the United States have turned to cultural industries to revitalize their economies, but we argue that the dynamics of agglomeration and labor market governance are crucial to the prospects for local economic growth from these sectors. This paper analyzes recent changes in the American film industry, traditionally a “high road” model of flexible production and employment. We examine the rapid rise of state tax incentives a…
Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota's Iron Range, 1915 -2000 by Jeffrey T. Manuel
Labor under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979 by Timothy Minchin
With around 12.5 million members in more than fifty affiliate unions, the AFL-CIO remains a standard-bearer for the struggles of the American labor movement over the last several decades. The Federation has been subjected to much critical analysis, but we have not had a detailed internal history of the organization, especially since the rise of global neoliberalism from around 1980. Timothy Minchin’s meticulously researched and clearly written bo…
No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland
Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America. Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, Chris Rhomberg examines the city's successive episo…
Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China
Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain o…
The struggle for a new labor regime: The US
This essay examines the American labor movement since the 2008 economic crisis. I begin with a brief review of the structural, institutional, and organizational conditions for labor before the crisis, including changes in employment and the labor force, the conflict between New Deal and anti-union labor regimes, and the emergence of new repertoires in the labor movement. These form the context for the financial crash, and the failure of policy to…
Authoritarian innovation in the United States: The role of dual subnational systems of labor governance
I apply Curato and Fossati's (2020) concept of “authoritarian innovation” to analyze historic changes in labor governance in the United States that have undermined democratic participation in the workplace and in the polity. Drawing from comparative political economy and welfare state theories, I argue that since the 1930s the U.S. has had not one unified, national labor regime but two competing, subnational regimes: the New Deal and its legacy i…
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)