Race, Multiculturalism, and Labour Organizing in the United States
Lessons for Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7706570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boy Lüthje, Christian Scherrer (0000-0001-8980-0175), Christoph Scherrer |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-171 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030981680107300108 |
| OpenAlex | W2045029104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 25 |
THE NEO-LIBERAL ASSAULT on labour unions, the introduction of new schemes of capitalist work organization, and the expansion of low-wage manufacturing and service industries, have probably been nowhere more pervasive than in the United States of America. Massive immigration, the subsequent ethnic re-composition of the working class, and the emergence of new patterns of racial discrimination and segmentation are forming an essential part of what business pundits and mainstream economist like to call the ‘new U.S. economy’. During the recent two decades, however, the U.S.A. has also witnessed important struggles of non-white immigrant workers for social organization and political representation, which have hardly become known in Europe. Furthermore, the open bankruptcy of the Cold War AFL-CIO leadership allowed the rise of labour leaders more committed to the organization of non-white immigrant workers. As the U.S. is re-emerging as a global model for economic restructuring, these developments entail many lessons for the labour movement in Europe. A serious assessment of the implications of the growth of a new, increasingly non-white working class for the reconstruction of trade unions and the labour movement as a political force requires a closer look at the relationship between the changing patterns of racial segmentation in the workforce, the historically established forms of trade unionism, and the changing conditions of the capitalist economy. As any such comparison between the U.S. and Europe, this discussion should neither view global economic restructuring as a U.S.-enforced implementation of neo-liberal principles into the more ‘civilized’ parts of the Race, Multiculturalism, and Labour Organizing in the United States: Lessons for Europe
Capitalism · Economics · Immigration · Labour economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · Trade union · Workforce · Working class · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
A great variety of transformations – and populisms
Syrian refugees in Turkey and trade union responses
Policing markets
Meanings and dilemmas in community unionism
Collective Action as a Prerequisite for Economic and Social Upgrading in Agricultural Production Networks
Racial Diversity and Union Organizing in the United States, 1999-2008
Trade Unions and Relations with Black and Minority-Ethnic Community Groups in the United Kingdom
Prisoners of the American dream
The New Asian immigration in Los Angeles and global restructuring
The second industrial divide
The Fall of the House of Labor
Workers' control in America
The Wages of Whiteness
Racial Formation in the United States
Hammer and Hoe
Labor's War at Home
Why is there no Socialism in the United States
The Global City
The Mobility of Labor and Capital
The Faulty Logic of the Anti-Immigration Rhetoric
Myth-making as labor history
Race and the CIO
Race and the CIO
Labor Divided
North American Free Trade
Individual Fairness, Group Preferences, and the California Strategy
Migration and informal work in the New Berlin
The Negro and the American Labor Movement
Blacks, Unions, and the EEOC
The Fall of the House of Labor. The Workplace, the State and American Labor Activism 1865-1925
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |