M Tapia
Biographic Data
| ID | 9343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Tapia |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Tapia |
| SIGNATURE | TAPIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0180-9891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Tale of Two Locals: The Strategic Choice of a Trade Union during the 2019 GM-UAW Strike and Member Satisfaction
Industrial relations (IR) scholars emphasize the strategic choices of industrial relations actors to explain IR processes and outcomes. This article asserts that union member satisfaction is critical to realize unions' objectives and that the local union and work context shapes satisfaction. The authors study the 2019 national UAW strike against General Motors in two, at first sight, very similar union locals. Union members of one local approved …
The Militarization of Employment Relations: Racialized Surveillance and Worker Control in Amazon Fulfillment Centers
Through a socio-structural analysis, we examine contemporary forms of labor control faced by Black warehouse workers in the southern United States. Grounding our research in critical industrial relations theory and centering our analysis in the counter-narratives of Black workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, we examine the impact of intensified military-style tactics in the modern workplace, contextualized by historical and region…
Variations of Freelancers’ “Effort-Bargain” Experiences in Platform Work: The Role of Skills
This article delves into freelancers’“effort-bargain” experiences within platform work, where effort is exchanged for income. The study of experiences enables us to understand how freelancer–platform relationships evolve in light of the platforms’ lack of recognition of freelancers’ skills. Drawing on 63 interviews across four platforms within the online labor market (OLM), the authors present a theoretical framework explaining a “skill-driven co…
Amazon et Mercado Libre, regards croisés sur le travail logistique. Entretien avec Tamara L. Lee, Maite Tapia et Maurizio Atzeni: Propos recueillis par Pierre Rouxel et Karel Yon
Maite Tapia et Tamara L. Lee ont coordonné une enquête sur les relations de travail au sein de plusieurs entrepôts logistiques d’Amazon aux États-Unis. Avec Bridget Kenny, Maurizio Atzeni a enquêté sur un entrepôt de Mercado Libre, l’équivalent latino-américain d’Amazon, dans le Grand Buenos Aires. Ces enquêtes témoignent de l’importance d’une analyse localisée des firmes transnationales, et des formes d’engagement au travail que chaque configura…
Intersectional organizing: Building solidarity through radical confrontation
IR scholars reference intersectionality in relation to organizing, but the field lacks a theoretical construct. Based on 2 years of intimate data access, we examine the 2017 U.S. Women's March as a critical case of “intersectional organizing.” We ground this empirical case study in Critical Race and Intersectionality Theory to show how the intersectional organizing model employed by the Women's March handles identity‐based fragmentation, with les…
A Critical Industrial Relations Approach to Understanding Contemporary Worker Uprising
Consistent with our calls for critical approaches to traditional Industrial Relations questions, we argue that it is important to consider whether the 'major upsurge in union organizing' is more accurately framed as a continuation of long-running democracy fights against systemic inequity and injustice. Thus, we bring focus to 'whole worker' organizing, as well as the structural limitations of our labor laws and institutions, to illuminate counte…
Do Workers Speak Up When Feeling Job Insecure? Examining Workers’ Response to Precarity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted unprecedented precarity upon workers, including concerns about job insecurity. We examine whether workers respond to job insecurity with voice, and assess the role of unions, managers, and employment arrangements in this relationship. Analyses of an original 2020 survey representative of Illinois and Michigan workers show that job insecurity is not significantly associated with voice. Further, while we find that un…
Geographical distribution of quinoa crop wild relatives in the Peruvian Andes: A participatory mapping initiative
Confronting Race and Other Social Identity Erasures: The Case for Critical Industrial Relations Theory
Despite the salience of racism and other "isms" woven into the fabric of US society, there is a dearth of industrial relations (IR) scholarship that engages critical race and intersectional theory (CRT/I) to deeply understand how structural racism and other social identity-based systems of oppression govern labor and employment systems. The authors call for the incorporation of CRT/I into IR to address the erasure of vital counter-narratives and …
Política minera comparativa entre Argentina y Ecuador
La expansión de las fronteras extractivas por la explotación minera genera una contradicción entre la razón global y la local. En tal sentido, el Estado Nacional asume un rol ambiguo y de permanente tensión entre la fusión de acumulación (inserción internacional) y la legitimidad estatal, en particular, ante la resistencia de los movimientos sociales frente a relaciones sociales desiguales, excluyentes y no democráticas que se presentan en los es…
Unpacking the Category of Migrant Workers in Trade Union Research: A Multi-Level Approach to Migrant Intersectionalities
This article reflects on the theoretical and empirical challenges that arise when researching trade union strategies towards migrant workers. By bringing together the debates on migration and intersectionality in Employment Relations, the authors highlight the problems of conflating different experiences of migrants under a homogenous view of the 'migrant worker' and rather suggest to (1) take account of 'migrant intersectionalities' - including …
Building Power From Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart by Bank Muñoz, C. (2017)
Renewed Activism for the Labor Movement: The Urgency of Young Worker Engagement
In this article, the authors consider the findings of a multi-year, case study-based research project on young workers and the labor movement in four countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors examine the conditions under which young workers actively engage in contemporary labor movements. Although the industrial relations context matters, the authors find the most persuasive explanations to be agency-based…
Trade union revitalisation: Where are we now? Where to next?
In this article, we review and assess research on the role of trade unions in labour markets and society, the current decline of unions and union revitalisation. The review shows three main trends. First, trade unions are converging into similar strategies of revitalisation. The ‘organising model’ has spread far beyond the Anglo-Saxon countries and is now commonplace for unions as a way to reach new worker constituencies. Thus, even in ‘instituti…
Mapping the frontier of theory in industrial relations: The Contested Role of Worker Representation
The widespread decline of trade unions and the emergence of various alternative forms of worker voice and representation have posed a challenge to the field of industrial relations and generated significant rethinking of the future directions for this field of study. In this article, we examine how well industrial relations meta-theories, when combined with efforts to build middle-range theories, provide distinctive explanations and different pre…
Organising migrants as workers or as migrant workers? Intersectionality, trade unions and precarious work
This paper considers precarious work from the point of view of trade union practice in the area of equality and diversity, exploring the way in which unions organise and recruit low-paid, vulnerable migrant workers. A theoretical approach is developed in order to understand the particular vulnerability and diversity of migrant workers in the labour market. Insights from the literature on intersectionality are applied to the study of employment, i…
Unpacking the Category of Migrant Workers in Trade Union Research: A Multi-Level Approach to Migrant Intersectionalities
This article reflects on the theoretical and empirical challenges that arise when researching trade union strategies towards migrant workers. By bringing together the debates on migration and intersectionality in Employment Relations, the authors highlight the problems of conflating different experiences of migrants under a homogenous view of the 'migrant worker' and rather suggest to (1) take account of 'migrant intersectionalities' - including …
Mapping the frontier of theory in industrial relations: The Contested Role of Worker Representation
The widespread decline of trade unions and the emergence of various alternative forms of worker voice and representation have posed a challenge to the field of industrial relations and generated significant rethinking of the future directions for this field of study. In this article, we examine how well industrial relations meta-theories, when combined with efforts to build middle-range theories, provide distinctive explanations and different pre…
Renewed Activism for the Labor Movement: The Urgency of Young Worker Engagement
In this article, the authors consider the findings of a multi-year, case study-based research project on young workers and the labor movement in four countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors examine the conditions under which young workers actively engage in contemporary labor movements. Although the industrial relations context matters, the authors find the most persuasive explanations to be agency-based…
Confronting Race and Other Social Identity Erasures: The Case for Critical Industrial Relations Theory
Despite the salience of racism and other "isms" woven into the fabric of US society, there is a dearth of industrial relations (IR) scholarship that engages critical race and intersectional theory (CRT/I) to deeply understand how structural racism and other social identity-based systems of oppression govern labor and employment systems. The authors call for the incorporation of CRT/I into IR to address the erasure of vital counter-narratives and …
Do Workers Speak Up When Feeling Job Insecure? Examining Workers’ Response to Precarity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted unprecedented precarity upon workers, including concerns about job insecurity. We examine whether workers respond to job insecurity with voice, and assess the role of unions, managers, and employment arrangements in this relationship. Analyses of an original 2020 survey representative of Illinois and Michigan workers show that job insecurity is not significantly associated with voice. Further, while we find that un…
The Militarization of Employment Relations: Racialized Surveillance and Worker Control in Amazon Fulfillment Centers
Through a socio-structural analysis, we examine contemporary forms of labor control faced by Black warehouse workers in the southern United States. Grounding our research in critical industrial relations theory and centering our analysis in the counter-narratives of Black workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, we examine the impact of intensified military-style tactics in the modern workplace, contextualized by historical and region…
Variations of Freelancers’ “Effort-Bargain” Experiences in Platform Work: The Role of Skills
This article delves into freelancers’“effort-bargain” experiences within platform work, where effort is exchanged for income. The study of experiences enables us to understand how freelancer–platform relationships evolve in light of the platforms’ lack of recognition of freelancers’ skills. Drawing on 63 interviews across four platforms within the online labor market (OLM), the authors present a theoretical framework explaining a “skill-driven co…
A Tale of Two Locals: The Strategic Choice of a Trade Union during the 2019 GM-UAW Strike and Member Satisfaction
Industrial relations (IR) scholars emphasize the strategic choices of industrial relations actors to explain IR processes and outcomes. This article asserts that union member satisfaction is critical to realize unions' objectives and that the local union and work context shapes satisfaction. The authors study the 2019 national UAW strike against General Motors in two, at first sight, very similar union locals. Union members of one local approved …
A Critical Industrial Relations Approach to Understanding Contemporary Worker Uprising
Consistent with our calls for critical approaches to traditional Industrial Relations questions, we argue that it is important to consider whether the 'major upsurge in union organizing' is more accurately framed as a continuation of long-running democracy fights against systemic inequity and injustice. Thus, we bring focus to 'whole worker' organizing, as well as the structural limitations of our labor laws and institutions, to illuminate counte…
Organising migrants as workers or as migrant workers? Intersectionality, trade unions and precarious work
This paper considers precarious work from the point of view of trade union practice in the area of equality and diversity, exploring the way in which unions organise and recruit low-paid, vulnerable migrant workers. A theoretical approach is developed in order to understand the particular vulnerability and diversity of migrant workers in the labour market. Insights from the literature on intersectionality are applied to the study of employment, i…
Mapping the frontier of theory in industrial relations: The Contested Role of Worker Representation
The widespread decline of trade unions and the emergence of various alternative forms of worker voice and representation have posed a challenge to the field of industrial relations and generated significant rethinking of the future directions for this field of study. In this article, we examine how well industrial relations meta-theories, when combined with efforts to build middle-range theories, provide distinctive explanations and different pre…
Trade union revitalisation: Where are we now? Where to next?
In this article, we review and assess research on the role of trade unions in labour markets and society, the current decline of unions and union revitalisation. The review shows three main trends. First, trade unions are converging into similar strategies of revitalisation. The ‘organising model’ has spread far beyond the Anglo-Saxon countries and is now commonplace for unions as a way to reach new worker constituencies. Thus, even in ‘instituti…
Renewed Activism for the Labor Movement: The Urgency of Young Worker Engagement
In this article, the authors consider the findings of a multi-year, case study-based research project on young workers and the labor movement in four countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors examine the conditions under which young workers actively engage in contemporary labor movements. Although the industrial relations context matters, the authors find the most persuasive explanations to be agency-based…
Unpacking the Category of Migrant Workers in Trade Union Research: A Multi-Level Approach to Migrant Intersectionalities
This article reflects on the theoretical and empirical challenges that arise when researching trade union strategies towards migrant workers. By bringing together the debates on migration and intersectionality in Employment Relations, the authors highlight the problems of conflating different experiences of migrants under a homogenous view of the 'migrant worker' and rather suggest to (1) take account of 'migrant intersectionalities' - including …
Building Power From Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart by Bank Muñoz, C. (2017)
Política minera comparativa entre Argentina y Ecuador
La expansión de las fronteras extractivas por la explotación minera genera una contradicción entre la razón global y la local. En tal sentido, el Estado Nacional asume un rol ambiguo y de permanente tensión entre la fusión de acumulación (inserción internacional) y la legitimidad estatal, en particular, ante la resistencia de los movimientos sociales frente a relaciones sociales desiguales, excluyentes y no democráticas que se presentan en los es…
Geographical distribution of quinoa crop wild relatives in the Peruvian Andes: A participatory mapping initiative
Confronting Race and Other Social Identity Erasures: The Case for Critical Industrial Relations Theory
Despite the salience of racism and other "isms" woven into the fabric of US society, there is a dearth of industrial relations (IR) scholarship that engages critical race and intersectional theory (CRT/I) to deeply understand how structural racism and other social identity-based systems of oppression govern labor and employment systems. The authors call for the incorporation of CRT/I into IR to address the erasure of vital counter-narratives and …
Do Workers Speak Up When Feeling Job Insecure? Examining Workers’ Response to Precarity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted unprecedented precarity upon workers, including concerns about job insecurity. We examine whether workers respond to job insecurity with voice, and assess the role of unions, managers, and employment arrangements in this relationship. Analyses of an original 2020 survey representative of Illinois and Michigan workers show that job insecurity is not significantly associated with voice. Further, while we find that un…
Amazon et Mercado Libre, regards croisés sur le travail logistique. Entretien avec Tamara L. Lee, Maite Tapia et Maurizio Atzeni: Propos recueillis par Pierre Rouxel et Karel Yon
Maite Tapia et Tamara L. Lee ont coordonné une enquête sur les relations de travail au sein de plusieurs entrepôts logistiques d’Amazon aux États-Unis. Avec Bridget Kenny, Maurizio Atzeni a enquêté sur un entrepôt de Mercado Libre, l’équivalent latino-américain d’Amazon, dans le Grand Buenos Aires. Ces enquêtes témoignent de l’importance d’une analyse localisée des firmes transnationales, et des formes d’engagement au travail que chaque configura…
Intersectional organizing: Building solidarity through radical confrontation
IR scholars reference intersectionality in relation to organizing, but the field lacks a theoretical construct. Based on 2 years of intimate data access, we examine the 2017 U.S. Women's March as a critical case of “intersectional organizing.” We ground this empirical case study in Critical Race and Intersectionality Theory to show how the intersectional organizing model employed by the Women's March handles identity‐based fragmentation, with les…
A Critical Industrial Relations Approach to Understanding Contemporary Worker Uprising
Consistent with our calls for critical approaches to traditional Industrial Relations questions, we argue that it is important to consider whether the 'major upsurge in union organizing' is more accurately framed as a continuation of long-running democracy fights against systemic inequity and injustice. Thus, we bring focus to 'whole worker' organizing, as well as the structural limitations of our labor laws and institutions, to illuminate counte…
Variations of Freelancers’ “Effort-Bargain” Experiences in Platform Work: The Role of Skills
This article delves into freelancers’“effort-bargain” experiences within platform work, where effort is exchanged for income. The study of experiences enables us to understand how freelancer–platform relationships evolve in light of the platforms’ lack of recognition of freelancers’ skills. Drawing on 63 interviews across four platforms within the online labor market (OLM), the authors present a theoretical framework explaining a “skill-driven co…
A Tale of Two Locals: The Strategic Choice of a Trade Union during the 2019 GM-UAW Strike and Member Satisfaction
Industrial relations (IR) scholars emphasize the strategic choices of industrial relations actors to explain IR processes and outcomes. This article asserts that union member satisfaction is critical to realize unions' objectives and that the local union and work context shapes satisfaction. The authors study the 2019 national UAW strike against General Motors in two, at first sight, very similar union locals. Union members of one local approved …
The Militarization of Employment Relations: Racialized Surveillance and Worker Control in Amazon Fulfillment Centers
Through a socio-structural analysis, we examine contemporary forms of labor control faced by Black warehouse workers in the southern United States. Grounding our research in critical industrial relations theory and centering our analysis in the counter-narratives of Black workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, we examine the impact of intensified military-style tactics in the modern workplace, contextualized by historical and region…
Political science (14 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (11 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works)