Jeff Schuhrke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Schuhrke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuhrke |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUHRKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Empire-Manhattan, NY, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9547-8691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How New York Unionists Established a Labor College
Boycotting Apartheid: Comparing US Labor’s Responses to the South African and Palestinian Freedom Movements
In the 1980s, organized labor in the United States enthusiastically threw its weight behind the Free South Africa Movement, with top union officials championing boycotts and divestments against Pretoria to nonviolently push for an end to the racist apartheid system. But twenty years later, many of these same labor officials came out in opposition to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions ( bds ), a South African-inspired movement to similarly pressur…
The US Unions Taking a Stand for Palestine
After Israel launched its US-backed military assault on Gaza in response to the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, much of the American labor movement risked backlash by speaking out in favor of a ceasefire, an arms embargo, and Palestinian freedom
When the AFL-CIO Almost Divested from Israel
Lights, Camera, Collective Action: Assessing the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Strike
Agrarian Reform and the AFL-CIO’s Cold War in El Salvador
It was a typical Saturday night at the posh Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador. The hotel’s coffee shop and adjacent dining room were teeming with oligarchs, businessmen, military officers, government functionaries, and expats, sitting in separate parties, eating dinner, and carrying on conversations about the country’s unfolding political turmoil. It was January 3, 1981, roughly a year into in El Salvador’s bloody civil war. At one table sat José Ro…
Comradely Brainwashing”: International Development, Labor Education, and Industrial Relations in the Cold War
In 1962, the AFL-CIO launched its government-funded labor education project in Latin America — the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) — to spread the tenets of anticommunist, “free” trade unionism. From its earliest days, leftists and anti-imperialists accused the Institute of being a CIA front with the mission of “brainwashing” Third World workers into becoming counterrevolutionaries. While AIFLD was indisputably a Cold War pr…
Life Chances: Labor Rights, International Institutions, and Worker Fatalities in the Global South
Hundreds of thousands of workers die on the job each year around the world, with disproportionately high fatality rates in the global South. Using fixed effects regression models for 51 countries located in the global South, this research examines how shifts in state context, ties to international organizations, and economic context affect worker fatalities from 1985 and 2002. We find that strengthening collective labor rights—the ability to prot…
Toward Radical Risk Reduction and Revolutionary Adaptation: Climate Disasters, Agriculture, and Capitalist Modernity
Disasters happen with increasing frequency, resulting in greater devastation, due to global warming. This happens all over the world, particularly in the Global South. Risk reduction and adaptation to climate change are vital strategies for ensuring safety, wellbeing, and perhaps survival, for millions of people. Decades of studies in the social sciences have led to the realization that disasters are more a product of structural inequality, and s…
Comradely Brainwashing”: International Development, Labor Education, and Industrial Relations in the Cold War
In 1962, the AFL-CIO launched its government-funded labor education project in Latin America — the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) — to spread the tenets of anticommunist, “free” trade unionism. From its earliest days, leftists and anti-imperialists accused the Institute of being a CIA front with the mission of “brainwashing” Third World workers into becoming counterrevolutionaries. While AIFLD was indisputably a Cold War pr…
Lights, Camera, Collective Action: Assessing the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Strike
Toward Radical Risk Reduction and Revolutionary Adaptation: Climate Disasters, Agriculture, and Capitalist Modernity
Disasters happen with increasing frequency, resulting in greater devastation, due to global warming. This happens all over the world, particularly in the Global South. Risk reduction and adaptation to climate change are vital strategies for ensuring safety, wellbeing, and perhaps survival, for millions of people. Decades of studies in the social sciences have led to the realization that disasters are more a product of structural inequality, and s…
Life Chances: Labor Rights, International Institutions, and Worker Fatalities in the Global South
Hundreds of thousands of workers die on the job each year around the world, with disproportionately high fatality rates in the global South. Using fixed effects regression models for 51 countries located in the global South, this research examines how shifts in state context, ties to international organizations, and economic context affect worker fatalities from 1985 and 2002. We find that strengthening collective labor rights—the ability to prot…
Comradely Brainwashing”: International Development, Labor Education, and Industrial Relations in the Cold War
In 1962, the AFL-CIO launched its government-funded labor education project in Latin America — the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) — to spread the tenets of anticommunist, “free” trade unionism. From its earliest days, leftists and anti-imperialists accused the Institute of being a CIA front with the mission of “brainwashing” Third World workers into becoming counterrevolutionaries. While AIFLD was indisputably a Cold War pr…
Agrarian Reform and the AFL-CIO’s Cold War in El Salvador
It was a typical Saturday night at the posh Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador. The hotel’s coffee shop and adjacent dining room were teeming with oligarchs, businessmen, military officers, government functionaries, and expats, sitting in separate parties, eating dinner, and carrying on conversations about the country’s unfolding political turmoil. It was January 3, 1981, roughly a year into in El Salvador’s bloody civil war. At one table sat José Ro…
Lights, Camera, Collective Action: Assessing the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Strike
Boycotting Apartheid: Comparing US Labor’s Responses to the South African and Palestinian Freedom Movements
In the 1980s, organized labor in the United States enthusiastically threw its weight behind the Free South Africa Movement, with top union officials championing boycotts and divestments against Pretoria to nonviolently push for an end to the racist apartheid system. But twenty years later, many of these same labor officials came out in opposition to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions ( bds ), a South African-inspired movement to similarly pressur…
The US Unions Taking a Stand for Palestine
After Israel launched its US-backed military assault on Gaza in response to the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, much of the American labor movement risked backlash by speaking out in favor of a ceasefire, an arms embargo, and Palestinian freedom
When the AFL-CIO Almost Divested from Israel
How New York Unionists Established a Labor College
Political science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic history (2 works)