Judith Stepan‐norri
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Stepan‐norri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Stepan‐norri |
| SIGNATURE | NORRI J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8717-5123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Symposium on Barry Eidlin’s Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
Barry Eidlin’s book, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018) explains why unions are weaker in the United States than they are in Canada, but have not always been that way. Indeed, unionization rates were virtually identical for much of the twentieth century, then diverged in the 1960s. Against dominant accounts focused on long-standing differences in political cultures and institutions, Eidlin …
Barry Eidlin (2018) Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
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Navigating class power and inequalities: New deal liberals and the Los Angeles regional labor board, 1933-1934
This article examines how local state officials operated the Los Angeles Regional Labor Board, 1933-1934, a regional branch of the National Labor Board. Amid a surge in workers mobilizing strikes and organizing unions, which faced fierce business opposition in LA, one of the period’s most anti-union cities, local state officials discarded initial solutions to industrial conflict – solutions based on state paternalism and involved parties’ volunta…
Social Movements, Leadership in
Social movement leaders act and make decisions on behalf of the movements they represent and therefore wield influence on the movement's trajectory. In this light, early scholarship addressed how leaders' personal qualities affect the character and actions of their movements. Mills notably identified union leader characteristics as telling of the distinctions between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. S…
Enhancing Gender Equity in Academia: Lessons from the Advance Program
Women are underrepresented in U.S. tenure-track faculty positions, and institutional interventions are key to creating greater gender equality and accessing women's potential. This study examines the effectiveness of one 'transformational' intervention, the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation initiative, implemented at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), in 2001. We compare data on women's representation in faculty positions before and d…
Unions and Race
Unions become involved in the construction of race, ethnicity, and nationalism by means of the organizational practices they develop and their interactions with employers. Although employers have been the major actors in fomenting racial antagonism and in structuring labor market dynamics that disadvantage workers of color and women, unions act to either reproduce or challenge these social relations. Early craft unions tended to reproduce such st…
US Union and Workers' Movements, Past and Future
The last half century of US labor movement history is characterized by dramatic decline in both density and (since 1979) real numbers. While unions and union federations in the mainstream union movement have attempted to adjust, developments outside their sphere have been especially prominent: the rise of independent unions and the initiation of alternative forms of workers movements. With union decline, community labor organizations [typified by…
Political Sociology
Ideological Hegemony
Ideological hegemony refers to the embedding of relations of domination and exploitation in the dominant ideas of society. When internalized, these dominant ideas induce consent to these relationships on the part of the dominated and exploited. Consistent with the interconnected world in which we live, there are as many levels of ideological hegemony as there are levels of society
The Relationality of Movements: Movement and Countermovement Resources, Infrastructure, and Leadership in the Los Angeles Tenants' Rights Mobilization, 1976-1979
This article offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of the determinants of social movement mobilization, with serious consideration of countermovement leadership and infrastructure on terms comparable with those of the movement. The authors examine the role of resources, infrastructure, and leadership in tenant mobilization in the Los Angeles tenants’ rights movement between 1976 and 1979. Using survey and census data along with archival mater…
Rival Unionism and Membership Growth in the United States, 1900 to 2005: A Special Case of Inter-organizational Competition
This article uses time-series data from 1900 to 2005 to explore the effects of rivalry between labor unions as a special case of inter-organizational competition. Holding constant economic and political factors that typically account for changes in union density, we investigate how competition from rival labor federations and from independent unions affect both union density and a measure for the density of the dominant federation (AFL/AFL-CIO), …
American Trade Unions and Data Limitations: A New Agenda for Labor Studies
Research on the historical level of union density in the United States is based on data or estimates that represent the sum of union members from different organizations. This results in aggregation bias, where the time-trend in union density is consistent with multiple, divergent trends among organizations. Some unions have experienced membership gains in specific industries or regions with distinct strategies that the analysis of aggregate data…
Unions
Unions are collections of workers who join together for the purpose of defending their common interests as employees. In capitalist societies, union representation provides many workers with their only potential for meaningful input in their workplaces. These workers benefit from unions because employers alone possess legal rights and authority over their property (both land and machinery), and therefore any single worker has limited bargaining p…
From Telegraph to Hypermedia Campaigns
Is Labor on the Move Again
Working Connections: Shop Floor Networks and Union Leadership
Leadership is not a unitary phenomenon. While many variations are possible, leadership comes in at least two forms: Emergent leaders who represent those whom they lead and imposed leaders who do not derive their authority from those they lead. This is especially true of the workplace. Management leaders, while often selected from among workers, are imposed on them from above; in contrast, union leadership claims to emerge from and to represent th…
Ideological Hegemony
Ideological hegemony theorizes the way in which relationships of domination and exploitation are embedded in the dominant ideas of society. To the extent that dominant ideas are internalized, they induce consent to these relationships on the part of the dominated and exploited. Consistent with the interconnected world in which we live, there are as many levels of ideological hegemony as there are levels of society
Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit
Employing a historical dataset on Detroit in the 1950s, this article uses geographic models to show the political impact of churches and religious populations on presidential voting. Multilevel models separate the relative impact of individual denomination, the effect of congregants in neighborhoods, and the importance of the physical presence of a church. Existing studies of geography and religion examine a few denominations; here a full set of …
Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit
Advances in Sociological Thinking about Interaction: Ritual Chains, Institutional Talk, Cognition, Humor, and Laughter
State and Development
Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement
Left out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions
The Geography of Class in an Industrial American City: Connections between Workplace and Neighborhood Politics
How do class and geography intersect? Many studies find that weak class identities among American workers in the 20th century are the result of a geographic separation between home and work. Political identities forged in the workplace remain isolated within the firm. At home, workers orient toward family, religion, and ethnic communities. This study examines that hypothesis using novel geographic data from a traffic study of post-war Detroit. Th…
The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism 1945-1968
Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement
"Who Gets the Bird?" or, How the Communists Won Power and Trust in America's Unions: The Relative Autonomy of Intraclass Political Struggles
Do intraclass struggles shape the political terrain on which ensuing struggles, within and between classes, are fought and resolved? Out attempt to answer this question focuses on the rivalry among the factions and parties involved in American industrial workers from the late 1930s on. We assess how the political practices of the Communists and their rivals determined which political camp won power in the new CIO unions. A logit model shows that …
The Relationality of Movements: Movement and Countermovement Resources, Infrastructure, and Leadership in the Los Angeles Tenants' Rights Mobilization, 1976-1979
This article offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of the determinants of social movement mobilization, with serious consideration of countermovement leadership and infrastructure on terms comparable with those of the movement. The authors examine the role of resources, infrastructure, and leadership in tenant mobilization in the Los Angeles tenants’ rights movement between 1976 and 1979. Using survey and census data along with archival mater…
Union Democracy, Radical Leadership, and the Hegemony of Capital
Are democratic or authoritarian unions more effective in defending and advancing workers' interests? Generally, the answers given are untheoretical, agnostic, or impressionistic-and unsupported by systematic empirical studies. The theory guiding our analysis is that a union with a democratic constitution, institutionalized opposition, and an active membership would tend to constitute a worker's immediate political community and sustain both class…
American Trade Unions and Data Limitations: A New Agenda for Labor Studies
Research on the historical level of union density in the United States is based on data or estimates that represent the sum of union members from different organizations. This results in aggregation bias, where the time-trend in union density is consistent with multiple, divergent trends among organizations. Some unions have experienced membership gains in specific industries or regions with distinct strategies that the analysis of aggregate data…
Red' Unions and 'Bourgeois' Contracts
What are the effects of the political consciousness of union leaders-and thus of the struggles they lead-in shaping the "political regime of production," that is, the political relations through which the capital/labor relation in the sphere of production is defined, regulated, and enforced? In the prevailing functionalist theory, whether in its "pluralist" or "Marxist" variant, the effects are nil: union leaders cannot transcend the labor union'…
Insurgency, Radicalism, and Democracy in America's Industrial Unions
Journal Article Insurgency, Radicalism, and Democracy in America's Industrial Unions Get access Judith Stepan-Norris, Judith Stepan-Norris University of California, Irvine Direct all correspondence to Judith Stepan-Norris, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maurice Zeitlin Maurice Zeitlin University of California, L…
The Geography of Class in an Industrial American City: Connections between Workplace and Neighborhood Politics
How do class and geography intersect? Many studies find that weak class identities among American workers in the 20th century are the result of a geographic separation between home and work. Political identities forged in the workplace remain isolated within the firm. At home, workers orient toward family, religion, and ethnic communities. This study examines that hypothesis using novel geographic data from a traffic study of post-war Detroit. Th…
Rival Unionism and Membership Growth in the United States, 1900 to 2005: A Special Case of Inter-organizational Competition
This article uses time-series data from 1900 to 2005 to explore the effects of rivalry between labor unions as a special case of inter-organizational competition. Holding constant economic and political factors that typically account for changes in union density, we investigate how competition from rival labor federations and from independent unions affect both union density and a measure for the density of the dominant federation (AFL/AFL-CIO), …
Enhancing Gender Equity in Academia: Lessons from the Advance Program
Women are underrepresented in U.S. tenure-track faculty positions, and institutional interventions are key to creating greater gender equality and accessing women's potential. This study examines the effectiveness of one 'transformational' intervention, the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation initiative, implemented at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), in 2001. We compare data on women's representation in faculty positions before and d…
The Making of Union Democracy
Lipset, Trow and Coleman argue that the possibilities for significant and widespread union democracy in labor unions are slight. They base their pessimism on their understanding of where democracy is likely to develop: in unions with highly skilled and highly paid workers, with moderately sized units, and with autonomous subunits.Autonomous subunits are likely to develop only in small-scale and not highly rationalized industries. Here I reexamine…
Navigating class power and inequalities: New deal liberals and the Los Angeles regional labor board, 1933-1934
This article examines how local state officials operated the Los Angeles Regional Labor Board, 1933-1934, a regional branch of the National Labor Board. Amid a surge in workers mobilizing strikes and organizing unions, which faced fierce business opposition in LA, one of the period’s most anti-union cities, local state officials discarded initial solutions to industrial conflict – solutions based on state paternalism and involved parties’ volunta…
Working Connections: Shop Floor Networks and Union Leadership
Leadership is not a unitary phenomenon. While many variations are possible, leadership comes in at least two forms: Emergent leaders who represent those whom they lead and imposed leaders who do not derive their authority from those they lead. This is especially true of the workplace. Management leaders, while often selected from among workers, are imposed on them from above; in contrast, union leadership claims to emerge from and to represent th…
Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit
"Who Gets the Bird?" or, How the Communists Won Power and Trust in America's Unions: The Relative Autonomy of Intraclass Political Struggles
Do intraclass struggles shape the political terrain on which ensuing struggles, within and between classes, are fought and resolved? Out attempt to answer this question focuses on the rivalry among the factions and parties involved in American industrial workers from the late 1930s on. We assess how the political practices of the Communists and their rivals determined which political camp won power in the new CIO unions. A logit model shows that …
Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.Gary Marks
Red' Unions and 'Bourgeois' Contracts
What are the effects of the political consciousness of union leaders-and thus of the struggles they lead-in shaping the "political regime of production," that is, the political relations through which the capital/labor relation in the sphere of production is defined, regulated, and enforced? In the prevailing functionalist theory, whether in its "pluralist" or "Marxist" variant, the effects are nil: union leaders cannot transcend the labor union'…
Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935- 1975
The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel
Union Democracy, Radical Leadership, and the Hegemony of Capital
Are democratic or authoritarian unions more effective in defending and advancing workers' interests? Generally, the answers given are untheoretical, agnostic, or impressionistic-and unsupported by systematic empirical studies. The theory guiding our analysis is that a union with a democratic constitution, institutionalized opposition, and an active membership would tend to constitute a worker's immediate political community and sustain both class…
Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action and Contemporary American Workers
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle Over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973
Insurgency, Radicalism, and Democracy in America's Industrial Unions
Journal Article Insurgency, Radicalism, and Democracy in America's Industrial Unions Get access Judith Stepan-Norris, Judith Stepan-Norris University of California, Irvine Direct all correspondence to Judith Stepan-Norris, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maurice Zeitlin Maurice Zeitlin University of California, L…
Labor in Crisis
Talking Union
Journal Article Talking Union. By Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xvi, 277 pp. Cloth, $39-95, ISBN 0-252-02192-4. Paper, $15-95, ISBN 0-25206489-5.) Get access Robert A. Slayton Robert A. Slayton Chapman University, Orange, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 284–285, https://doi.…
Talking Union
The Making of Union Democracy
Lipset, Trow and Coleman argue that the possibilities for significant and widespread union democracy in labor unions are slight. They base their pessimism on their understanding of where democracy is likely to develop: in unions with highly skilled and highly paid workers, with moderately sized units, and with autonomous subunits.Autonomous subunits are likely to develop only in small-scale and not highly rationalized industries. Here I reexamine…
The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism 1945-1968
Strangers to Their Own Class
The central question addressed is whether constitutional democracy, institutionalized opposition, and radical leadership tend to narrow the vertical social distance between the officers and members of industrial unions. The empirical analysis utilizes data on the Congress of Industrial Organizations unions during the late 1940s. The argument is that both union democracy and radicalism tend to sustain a close identification between workers and the…
Left out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions
The Geography of Class in an Industrial American City: Connections between Workplace and Neighborhood Politics
How do class and geography intersect? Many studies find that weak class identities among American workers in the 20th century are the result of a geographic separation between home and work. Political identities forged in the workplace remain isolated within the firm. At home, workers orient toward family, religion, and ethnic communities. This study examines that hypothesis using novel geographic data from a traffic study of post-war Detroit. Th…
Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement
Ideological Hegemony
Ideological hegemony theorizes the way in which relationships of domination and exploitation are embedded in the dominant ideas of society. To the extent that dominant ideas are internalized, they induce consent to these relationships on the part of the dominated and exploited. Consistent with the interconnected world in which we live, there are as many levels of ideological hegemony as there are levels of society
Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit
Employing a historical dataset on Detroit in the 1950s, this article uses geographic models to show the political impact of churches and religious populations on presidential voting. Multilevel models separate the relative impact of individual denomination, the effect of congregants in neighborhoods, and the importance of the physical presence of a church. Existing studies of geography and religion examine a few denominations; here a full set of …
Churches as Organizational Resources: A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit
Advances in Sociological Thinking about Interaction: Ritual Chains, Institutional Talk, Cognition, Humor, and Laughter
State and Development
Unions
Unions are collections of workers who join together for the purpose of defending their common interests as employees. In capitalist societies, union representation provides many workers with their only potential for meaningful input in their workplaces. These workers benefit from unions because employers alone possess legal rights and authority over their property (both land and machinery), and therefore any single worker has limited bargaining p…
From Telegraph to Hypermedia Campaigns
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