Matthew S Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4261267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew S Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4754-8738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Legitimation to Exercising Structural Power
Two major anti-sweatshop groups—United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and SweatFree Communities—pursued similar goals in different social arenas: college campuses and city governments. This article examines their shared strategy of gradual escalation, demonstrating how social movements must balance coercion and consent to effectively pressure authorities. Both groups aimed to enforce pro-labor rights codes for apparel industry partners, using…
Global Justice as a Social Movement
The global justice movement (GJM) – also called the alter‐globalization, the anti‐corporate globalization, or (by its critics) the antiglobalization movement – is a transnational social movement, rooted in the confluence of the human rights, labor, environmental, indigenous, peasant, and feminist movements' shared opposition to neoliberal globalization (“free market” globalization, which GJM activists see as promoting the hyper‐exploitation of pe…
How Students on College Campuses Created Opportunities for Workers in Sweatshops
Political opportunity structure (POS) refers to how the larger social context, such as repression, shapes a social movement’s chances of success. Most work on POS looks at how movements deal with the political opportunities enabling and/or constraining them. This article looks at how one group of social movement actors operating in a more open POS alters the POS for a different group of actors in a more repressive environment through a chain of i…
Global Solidarity, Global Worker Empowerment, and Global Strategy in the Anti-sweatshop Movement
I explore the ideology of worker empowerment among U.S. anti-sweatshop activists, particularly United Students Against Sweatshops, and its strategic consequences for transnational campaigns. This ideology is central in shaping the movement’s transnational strategy and organization, fostering communication and accountability, particularly to organizations representing sweatshop workers. Such organizational choices, in turn, shape how transnational…
Strategic innovation in US anti-sweatshop movement
In this paper, I analyze the ways in which the US anti-sweatshop movement – particularly United Students Against Sweatshops and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) – has engaged in a process of strategic innovation in the face of new challenges. While scholars of social movements have studied the outcome of this process – strategy – there has been less attention to the process of how movements develop strategy – strategizing. This involves a diale…
Global justice as a social movement
The global justice movement (GJM) – also known as the alter‐globalization or anti‐globalization movement – is a transnational social movement, rooted in the confluence of the human rights, labor, environmental, indigenous, peasant, and feminist movements’ shared opposition to neoliberal globalization and vision of a more democratic, equitable, ecologically sustainable world. (Neoliberal globalization refers to those structural changes in the glob…
Global Justice as a Social Movement
The global justice movement is a transnational social movement, rooted in the confluence of the human rights, labor, environmental, indigenous, peasant, and feminist movements’ shared opposition to neoliberal globalization and vision of a more democratic, equitable, ecologically sustainable world. Neoliberal globalization refers to those structural changes in the global economy being carried out under a discourse of free markets that weaken or el…
Strategic innovation in US anti-sweatshop movement
In this paper, I analyze the ways in which the US anti-sweatshop movement – particularly United Students Against Sweatshops and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) – has engaged in a process of strategic innovation in the face of new challenges. While scholars of social movements have studied the outcome of this process – strategy – there has been less attention to the process of how movements develop strategy – strategizing. This involves a diale…
How Students on College Campuses Created Opportunities for Workers in Sweatshops
Political opportunity structure (POS) refers to how the larger social context, such as repression, shapes a social movement’s chances of success. Most work on POS looks at how movements deal with the political opportunities enabling and/or constraining them. This article looks at how one group of social movement actors operating in a more open POS alters the POS for a different group of actors in a more repressive environment through a chain of i…
Global Justice as a Social Movement
The global justice movement is a transnational social movement, rooted in the confluence of the human rights, labor, environmental, indigenous, peasant, and feminist movements’ shared opposition to neoliberal globalization and vision of a more democratic, equitable, ecologically sustainable world. Neoliberal globalization refers to those structural changes in the global economy being carried out under a discourse of free markets that weaken or el…
Global justice as a social movement
The global justice movement (GJM) – also known as the alter‐globalization or anti‐globalization movement – is a transnational social movement, rooted in the confluence of the human rights, labor, environmental, indigenous, peasant, and feminist movements’ shared opposition to neoliberal globalization and vision of a more democratic, equitable, ecologically sustainable world. (Neoliberal globalization refers to those structural changes in the glob…
Strategic innovation in US anti-sweatshop movement
In this paper, I analyze the ways in which the US anti-sweatshop movement – particularly United Students Against Sweatshops and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) – has engaged in a process of strategic innovation in the face of new challenges. While scholars of social movements have studied the outcome of this process – strategy – there has been less attention to the process of how movements develop strategy – strategizing. This involves a diale…
How Students on College Campuses Created Opportunities for Workers in Sweatshops
Political opportunity structure (POS) refers to how the larger social context, such as repression, shapes a social movement’s chances of success. Most work on POS looks at how movements deal with the political opportunities enabling and/or constraining them. This article looks at how one group of social movement actors operating in a more open POS alters the POS for a different group of actors in a more repressive environment through a chain of i…
Global Solidarity, Global Worker Empowerment, and Global Strategy in the Anti-sweatshop Movement
I explore the ideology of worker empowerment among U.S. anti-sweatshop activists, particularly United Students Against Sweatshops, and its strategic consequences for transnational campaigns. This ideology is central in shaping the movement’s transnational strategy and organization, fostering communication and accountability, particularly to organizations representing sweatshop workers. Such organizational choices, in turn, shape how transnational…
Global Justice as a Social Movement
The global justice movement (GJM) – also called the alter‐globalization, the anti‐corporate globalization, or (by its critics) the antiglobalization movement – is a transnational social movement, rooted in the confluence of the human rights, labor, environmental, indigenous, peasant, and feminist movements' shared opposition to neoliberal globalization (“free market” globalization, which GJM activists see as promoting the hyper‐exploitation of pe…
From Legitimation to Exercising Structural Power
Two major anti-sweatshop groups—United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and SweatFree Communities—pursued similar goals in different social arenas: college campuses and city governments. This article examines their shared strategy of gradual escalation, demonstrating how social movements must balance coercion and consent to effectively pressure authorities. Both groups aimed to enforce pro-labor rights codes for apparel industry partners, using…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social movement (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (3 works) · Globalization (3 works)