A ‘New’ Social Movement
US Labor and the Trends of Social Movement Unionism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Schuchert Walsh (The Jane Goodall Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 192-204 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00442.x |
| OpenAlex | W1592121119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 52 |
“Social movement unionism” (SMU) is frequently understood as the antithesis to business unionism. While business unionism, often characterized as bureaucratic and hierarchical, dominated most of the second half of the 20th century, “SMU” showed resurgence in the 1990s. Some scholars argue that SMU should reach beyond the workplace and incorporate the community. Others seem to be proposing a strategy and understand SMU as tactically innovative and mobilizing in alliance with traditional social movements, such as the women’s, environmental, or immigrant rights movement. Some offer propositions about the social processes of a labor union and that SMU must be internally democratic. Finally, some advocate an internationalist component such as a link to global‐justice campaigns. In this article, I propose that SMU consists of an array of trends and is inclusive of these varied descriptions, strategies or processes. These trends include (1) rank‐and‐file mobilization, (2) leadership, (3) community‐based organizing, (4) worker centers, (5) corporate campaigns, and (6) transnational components. I draw on social movement and labor literatures to seek a broader understanding of this labor organizing form
Aesthetics · Art · Economic geography · Economics · Movement (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Coalitions Across the Class Divide
Social movements in an organizational society
The making of American exceptionalism
Manufacturing Consent
The Next Upsurge
Rekindling the Movement
Farewell to the Factory
Hard Work
Labor and the Environmental Movement
Organizing Immigrants
Threat (And Opportunity)
Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility
Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions
Labor Organizing among Mexican-born Workers in the United States
Alternative Strategic Directions for the U.S. Labor Movement
"New Social Movements" of the Early Nineteenth Century
New Social Movements” of the Early Nineteenth Century
National Union Effectiveness in Organizing
Worker Centers
Organizing Power
When Do Leaders Matter? Hypotheses on Leadership Dynamics in Social Movements
The Sequencing of Success
Density Matters
Taking on the CosmoCorps? Experiments in Transnational Labor Organization
Social Movement Continuity
The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement
How the Civil Rights Movement Revitalized Labor Militancy
Beyond the Boycott
Worker Insurgency, Radical Organization, and New Deal Labor Legislation
Union Corporate Campaigns
Union Corporate Campaigns
Manufacturing Dissent
Unions, Solidarity, and Striking
Political Process Theory and Transnational Movements
Social Movement Communities and Cycles of Protest
Understanding the New Labor Movements in the 'Third World
What Has Happened to the Us Labor Movement? Union Decline and Renewal
The US Labor Movement
The Institutional Logic of Union Organizing and the Effectiveness of Social Movement Repertoires
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy
Resources and Resourcefulness
Labor organization and class alliance
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |