Social Justice Infrastructure” Organizations as New Actors From the Community

The Case of South Florida

Bibliographic Data

ID6076796
AuthorsBruce Nissen (Florida International University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume17
Issue1-2
Pages157-169
Publication date2009-06-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1070-5422 • E-ISSN: 1543-3706
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10705420902856167
OpenAlexW2074800237
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

This article reviews the decline of U.S. unions and examines proposals for their revitalization. It also notes the emergence of new actors in working class communities to fill the void left by declining union power. Using south Florida as an example, it chronicles the growth of a “social justice infrastructure” of community organizations such as worker centers, working-class grassroots community organizing groups, faith-based worker rights groups, and labor-community coalition groups. It notes difficulties in building deep coalitions between traditional unions and such groups and explores the possibility of “networks” as a new promising organizational form. It finds limitations to the network form also, and proposes that a synergistic conjunction of various types of political and economic struggles and forms holds more promise than any one particular organizational form

Community organization · Community organizing · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Faith · Grassroots · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Social justice · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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