Ralph Armbruster‐sandoval
Biographic Data
| ID | 4527011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Armbruster‐sandoval |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Armbruster‐sandoval |
| SIGNATURE | SANDOVAL R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Skills to Win
This article examines a recent contract fight organized by the Santa Barbara Teachers Association (SBTA). In 2023, 15 SBTA members attended an online training class called Skills to Win. Developed by legendary labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey, in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Labor Center, Skills to Win has been utilized by workers and unions across the country. The primary purpose of the training is to build supermajority unions tha…
False Generosity, Joint Appointments, and the UCSB Chicanx Studies Department
Ethnic Studies departments, like the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Chicana/o Studies, emerged from social movements in the 1960s and 1970s. All faculty in this specific department had joint appointments, as the unit's first chair wrote about in an article published in the journal in 1979. Now, some 45 years later, a more recent former department chair reflects on that earlier history with a more critical lens, using Paulo…
Everyday Dirty Work
The Long UC Santa Barbara Chicana/o/x Movement
Most social movement scholars assume that the African American Civil Rights and Chicana/o/x Movements lasted no more than ten years. Framing these movements as “short,” rather than “long,” minimizes their complex, radical roots, reinforcing popular misconceptions that they had narrow goals, such as color-blindness. In this article, I utilize a case study approach to examine the long Chicana/o/x Movement on one specific campus—the University of Ca…
The Mexican and Latino Question
In his book Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice, Enrique M. Buelna examines the life of Ralph Cuarón, a Mexican-American or Chicano seaman, furniture maker, father, husband, and lifelong activist who joined the Communist Party at age 19 during the Second World War. The Communist Party, however, largely ignored Mexican workers and local members were not pleased with his organizing of that segment of the working class. In the ear…
Guatemala
AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers
The Life of the Party
This essay explores the life of Alice Greenfield McGrath, a key player in the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and a longtime activist whose involvement in social justice issues spanned eight decades. While best known for her role in the Sleepy Lagoon case in the 1940s, Alice fought the "good fight" for virtually her entire life, supporting the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, joining the Communist Party in the 1930s, organizing d…
A people's history of Los Angeles
Race, Class, and Revolution
Naming the Enemies
Workers of the World Unite? The Contemporary Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Americas
The contemporary anti-sweatshop movement emerged more than 10 years ago. During that time period, numerous campaigns have challenged sweatshop labor practices (particularly in the garment industry) throughout the Americas. This article examines four such campaigns that primarily involved Central American garment workers and U.S.-based nongovernment organizations. The results of these case studies were relatively mixed. Gains (better wages and wor…
Globalization and Transnational Labor Organizing
The proliferation of garment industry sweatshops over the past 20 years has generated numerous cross-border (transnational) organizing campaigns involving U.S., Mexican, and Central American labor unions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This article examines one such campaign that took place at the Honduran maquiladora factory known as Kimi. The Kimi workers (along with their transnational allies) struggled for six years before they were…
Globalization and Transnational Labor Organizing
The proliferation of garment industry sweatshops over the past 20 years has generated numerous cross-border (transnational) organizing campaigns involving U.S., Mexican, and Central American labor unions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This article examines one such campaign that took place at the Honduran maquiladora factory known as Kimi. The Kimi workers (along with their transnational allies) struggled for six years before they were…
Unions in a Globalized Environment
Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico
Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 12
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Organizing
Workers of the World Unite? The Contemporary Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Americas
The contemporary anti-sweatshop movement emerged more than 10 years ago. During that time period, numerous campaigns have challenged sweatshop labor practices (particularly in the garment industry) throughout the Americas. This article examines four such campaigns that primarily involved Central American garment workers and U.S.-based nongovernment organizations. The results of these case studies were relatively mixed. Gains (better wages and wor…
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Organizing
Globalization and Transnational Labor Organizing
The proliferation of garment industry sweatshops over the past 20 years has generated numerous cross-border (transnational) organizing campaigns involving U.S., Mexican, and Central American labor unions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This article examines one such campaign that took place at the Honduran maquiladora factory known as Kimi. The Kimi workers (along with their transnational allies) struggled for six years before they were…
Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 12
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Organizing
Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico
Globalization and Transnational Labor Organizing
The proliferation of garment industry sweatshops over the past 20 years has generated numerous cross-border (transnational) organizing campaigns involving U.S., Mexican, and Central American labor unions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This article examines one such campaign that took place at the Honduran maquiladora factory known as Kimi. The Kimi workers (along with their transnational allies) struggled for six years before they were…
Globalization and Transnational Labor Organizing
The proliferation of garment industry sweatshops over the past 20 years has generated numerous cross-border (transnational) organizing campaigns involving U.S., Mexican, and Central American labor unions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This article examines one such campaign that took place at the Honduran maquiladora factory known as Kimi. The Kimi workers (along with their transnational allies) struggled for six years before they were…
Unions in a Globalized Environment
Workers of the World Unite? The Contemporary Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Americas
The contemporary anti-sweatshop movement emerged more than 10 years ago. During that time period, numerous campaigns have challenged sweatshop labor practices (particularly in the garment industry) throughout the Americas. This article examines four such campaigns that primarily involved Central American garment workers and U.S.-based nongovernment organizations. The results of these case studies were relatively mixed. Gains (better wages and wor…
Naming the Enemies
Race, Class, and Revolution
A people's history of Los Angeles
The Life of the Party
This essay explores the life of Alice Greenfield McGrath, a key player in the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and a longtime activist whose involvement in social justice issues spanned eight decades. While best known for her role in the Sleepy Lagoon case in the 1940s, Alice fought the "good fight" for virtually her entire life, supporting the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, joining the Communist Party in the 1930s, organizing d…
AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers
Guatemala
The Mexican and Latino Question
In his book Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice, Enrique M. Buelna examines the life of Ralph Cuarón, a Mexican-American or Chicano seaman, furniture maker, father, husband, and lifelong activist who joined the Communist Party at age 19 during the Second World War. The Communist Party, however, largely ignored Mexican workers and local members were not pleased with his organizing of that segment of the working class. In the ear…
The Long UC Santa Barbara Chicana/o/x Movement
Most social movement scholars assume that the African American Civil Rights and Chicana/o/x Movements lasted no more than ten years. Framing these movements as “short,” rather than “long,” minimizes their complex, radical roots, reinforcing popular misconceptions that they had narrow goals, such as color-blindness. In this article, I utilize a case study approach to examine the long Chicana/o/x Movement on one specific campus—the University of Ca…
Everyday Dirty Work
False Generosity, Joint Appointments, and the UCSB Chicanx Studies Department
Ethnic Studies departments, like the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Chicana/o Studies, emerged from social movements in the 1960s and 1970s. All faculty in this specific department had joint appointments, as the unit's first chair wrote about in an article published in the journal in 1979. Now, some 45 years later, a more recent former department chair reflects on that earlier history with a more critical lens, using Paulo…
Skills to Win
This article examines a recent contract fight organized by the Santa Barbara Teachers Association (SBTA). In 2023, 15 SBTA members attended an online training class called Skills to Win. Developed by legendary labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey, in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Labor Center, Skills to Win has been utilized by workers and unions across the country. The primary purpose of the training is to build supermajority unions tha…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Globalization (4 works)