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Forging and Sustaining Labor–Community Coalitions: The Workfare Justice Movement in Three Cities 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This article examines the factors shaping the formation and longevity of labor–community coalitions through comparative case
studies of campaigns for workfare justice in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and New York. Interviews with organizational staff and
leaders reveal that their decisions to form and sustain these coalitions were shaped by their collective identities, especially
their commitment to social movement unionism, and their context, particularly the sectoral distribution of workfare workers.
We also highlight the role of two factors previously overlooked by labor scholars: (1) ecological processes of niche-formation,
which determined if and how inter-organizational competition was overcome, and (2) authorities’ social-control strategies,
which shaped coalition endurance.
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Ellen ReeseEmail: |
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Joel Stillerman 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(4):507-530
Recent discussions of contentious politics have focused on struggles in and over space and place. This article builds upon
these concerns by using ethnographic, interview, and documentary data to analyze the spatial politics of street market vendors
in Santiago, Chile. Drawing upon Lefebvre’s concepts of perceived, conceived, and lived space as well as ideas drawn from
research on space and protest, I show how street market vendors build upon spatial routines, a sense of place, political alliances,
and scale jumping in their self-defense strategies at the local, national, and international scales. The findings illustrate
Lefebvre’s argument that the advance of abstract space (constructed by dominant economic and political elites) provokes resistance
by groups who defend and seek to reconstruct lived space.
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Joel StillermanEmail: |
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The Dutch are the world’s leaders in the flower business even though they seem to lack comparative advantage in the traditional
sense. Comparative advantages played a role in the history of the Dutch flower cluster and they still have a role today. Based
on a critic of Porter’s theories, the investigation suggests that the exploitation of comparative advantages is allowed only
to those firms and clusters that already possess a competitive advantage, based on technology, logistics infrastructure, innovation
and human skills. So that comparative advantages and competitive advantages join in a sort of helix process based on social
innovation and collective learning.
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Robbin te VeldeEmail: |
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Julie Stewart 《Qualitative sociology》2008,31(3):231-250
This article explores one region’s struggle for human rights and legal justice in post-war Guatemala. Rabinal—a target of
state-directed genocide in the 1980s—suffered one of the highest fatality levels of the war. In the post-war era, Rabinal
human rights activists have led the struggle to demand exhumations of mass graves, build memorials, and push for criminal
investigations and trials. Despite some important local victories, few of those responsible for the violence have received
punishment. But that does not mean this movement is a failure. Instead, this article highlights the cultural, expressive and
inprocess benefits of mobilization. Rabinal activists have restored their sense of agency and confirmed their collective identity
as fighters for legal justice. Meanwhile, this local mobilization has contributed to Guatemala’s uneven process of democratization.
Julie Stewart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on post-war community development and political incorporation in Guatemala. Her current projects include a study of political refugees in Salt Lake City and research on Utah as a new immigration destination for undocumented workers. 相似文献
Julie StewartEmail: |
Julie Stewart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on post-war community development and political incorporation in Guatemala. Her current projects include a study of political refugees in Salt Lake City and research on Utah as a new immigration destination for undocumented workers. 相似文献
5.
Zhai Yuanjian 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):429-437
China’s previous contract laws had many contradictions and failed to meet the needs of China’s developing market economy.
Although some problems still need to be dealt with, the unified contract law is more advanced, systematic and plays an important
role in fostering and encouraging transactions.
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Zhai YuanjianEmail: |
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This paper concerns the author’s countertransference reflections on her work with a gay adolescent who identifies with powerfully
destructive internal objects, including Hitler and the Monster. The author describes her countertransference inquiry through
which she experiences her own potential destructiveness in order to help accommodate her adolescent patient’s rejected and
disowned self states.
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Shoshana RingelEmail: |
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Evelyn L. Lehrer 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(3):277-293
This paper examines how two dimensions of childhood religion—affiliation and participation—are related to the probability
of graduating from high school. Hypotheses derived from a human capital model are tested with data on non-Hispanic white and
black women from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. The empirical findings are generally consistent with the hypotheses,
revealing sizeable differentials in the likelihood of obtaining a high-school diploma by affiliation and participation. The
results suggest that the convergence of Catholics to the mainline Protestant pattern for non-Hispanic whites found here, and
supported by many previous studies, has not taken place in the black population. In other respects, the relationships between
religion and high-school graduation are similar for the two racial groups.
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Evelyn L. LehrerEmail: |
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Amy A. Quark 《Qualitative sociology》2007,30(1):21-40
Since the 1970s, a number of major corporations have located their corporate headquarters in rural and non-metropolitan areas.
I interrogate this phenomenon, based on a case study of Lands’ End, a global apparel firm in Wisconsin. Much research has
exposed how firms insulate themselves from claims made by workers and communities through organizational and spatial distance
(i.e. global sourcing, casualization of employment structures). Corporate headquarters relocation presents a paradox, bringing
key decision-makers in the global economy into new, face-to-face relationships with workers and communities. Negotiated against
a radical transformation of local class structure, I argue that new forms of social regulation are emerging—in particular,
a hybrid version of the Fordist-era company towns.
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Amy A. QuarkEmail: |
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Current literature generally highlights the unique differences between sports and traditional unions. In particular, the contrast
between the two types of unions’ approaches to the free market when it comes to wage determination—sports unions fought the
“reserve clause” to obtain free market outcomes while traditional unions fought to circumvent the market for wages—has been
widely cited. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the hitherto neglected comparisons between sports and traditional
unions. With respect to both economic and non-economic issues, professional sports unions share far more in common with their
traditional counterparts than the labor and sports economics literatures would lead one to believe.
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James Richard HillEmail: |
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This paper investigates the channels through which maternal employment affects childhood obesity. We use time diaries and
interview responses from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics which combines information
on children’s time allocation, children’s BMI, and mother’s labor force participation. We find some evidence that supervision
and nutrition play significant but small roles in the relationship between maternal employment and childhood obesity. Although
the difference in the effect of maternal employment varies by mother’s education, we find few differences in the mechanisms
by mother’s education.
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Rusty TchernisEmail: |
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People’s connection to land is an important contributor to identity in traditional southern society. In small southern communities,
to know where someone lives is to know who someone is because place assigns biography. Studies have investigated the physical
and economic implications of landscape change in the South, but comparatively little research focuses on the impacts to culture
of urban growth. We consider how sense of place (as an indicator of culture) may be impacted, over time, by physical and structural
changes in a locale. This point of departure examines the temporal dimension of sense of place, or how place perceptions may
vary as familiar places and practices are altered by landscape moderations. We review the literature on sense of place and
changing Southern landscapes and also offer a conceptual framework for analyzing sense of place over the long-term.
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Wayne C. ZippererEmail: |
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Gayle A. Sulik 《Qualitative sociology》2007,30(3):297-314
Gendered definitions of care influence breast cancer survivors’ coping strategies, sense of entitlement to care, and ultimately
their capacity to receive care. Using qualitative data from 60 intensive interviews, this study examines how gendered definitions
of care influence women’s experiences as care-receivers. Findings indicate that negotiating gender boundaries to care for
the self is both empowering and stigmatizing. Women with breast cancer are required to break gender norms that stress compliance,
nurturing, and putting the needs of others first to prioritize their own needs for care. Concurrently, they take on additional
nurturing roles to provide support to other women with breast cancer, relinquishing to some degree the individualistic approach
to life they found necessary to cope with their illness in the first place.
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Gayle A. SulikEmail: |
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Married Couples’ Time Allocation Decisions and Marital Stability 总被引:4,自引:4,他引:0
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985–1992, are the data used to simultaneously examine the role of family stability
to both market and household time allocation for both spouses and the role of couples’ time allocation in their probability
of divorce. The study found that increases in the probabilities of divorce were only significantly correlated with decreases
in wife’s housework time. It was also found by the study that increases in the husband’s market work hours and increases in
the wife’s household work hours had negative effects on the probability of divorce.
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Jiahui YanEmail: |
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Social movement scholars have suggested that opportunity structures are not objective features of the world but must be constructed by social forces, including social movements. Here, we attempt to analyze how Palestinians living in the occupied territories constructed political opportunity during the run-up to the 1987 first Intifada. We analyze how the changing Israeli political opportunity structure affected Palestinians’ framing of the structural conditions they faced. In particular, we examine (1) how the consolidating Palestinian movement within the occupied territories built the capacity for a shared, collective framing of events, and (2) how the movement adapted a strategy based on its understanding of the opportunity presented by divisions in Israeli society concerning the occupation. Based on the analysis, we offer several insights into the Intifada's dynamics and trajectories.
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Eitan Y. AlimiEmail: |
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Money Matters: Young Adults’ Perception of the Economic Consequences of their Parents’ Divorce 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
Dorit Eldar-Avidan Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia Charles W. Greenbaum 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(1):74-85
A qualitative study examined the perceptions of 22 Israeli young adults (ages 20–25) of childhood parental divorce. Respondents
discussed their experiences, including economic consequences of the divorce. Results related to the practical aspect of economic
decline, to economic issues as embodiment of parental conflicts, and to children’s emotional and practical roles connected
to economic changes. Children’s understanding and coping with financial issues are related to three profiles of overall adjustment
identified in this study—resilience, survival, and vulnerability. Resilient young adults interpreted as empowering their understanding
and coping; the survivors recognized their efforts as meaningful but burdensome; and vulnerable participants felt that economic changes caused a heavy
financial and emotional price. Limitations and implications are discussed.
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Charles W. GreenbaumEmail: |
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Nasser Daneshvary C. Jeffrey Waddoups Bradley S. Wimmer 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(4):365-379
This paper provides insight into the wage gap between lesbians and heterosexual women. Using data from the 2000 Decennial
Census, we find a lesbian premium that equals approximately 10% for women without a bachelor’s degree, and is nearly non-existent
for women with higher levels of education. These findings are consistent with proposition that the gap between lesbians’ and
heterosexual women’s commitment to the labor market narrows at higher levels of education. We also find that controls for
industry and occupation exert only a small effect on the gap between lesbian and heterosexual women’s wages.
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Bradley S. WimmerEmail: |
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Beltrán Roca 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2007,18(2):116-134
During the year 2005 many organizations took part in Poverty Zero, a campaign that aims to reach the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals for 2015. Based on participant observation
and open ended interviews, this paper describes the origins, development, and evaluation of Poverty Zero in Andalusia (Spain). It examines, by means of ethnography, how DNGOs (Development Nongovernmental Organizations) create
social movement networks, and explores the limits and possibilities of their advocacy activities. The paper concludes that
DNGOs tend to generate centralized social movements with reduced questioning of the global system. Nevertheless, as shown
in the case of the Andalusian Alliance against Poverty, the more decentralized a movement, the deeper its transformational
potential.
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Beltrán RocaEmail: |
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Using data collected from surveys conducted in 1990 and 2000, we examine changes in the administrative practices of US-based
national and international unions. We examine the hiring, human resource, financial, strategic planning, and organizational
practices and how they have changed over time. We find that unions are changing their staff hiring practices in ways that
contribute to workforce professionalization and that unions are moving toward more formal human resource policies and more
systematic financial and strategic planning practices. These developments appear to be a reaction to the unions’ changing
operating environment and reflect the pressure on union leaders to make effective use of their declining resources.
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Paul F. ClarkEmail: |
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Giuliana Urso Lina Ognyanova Stoeva Yana Ognyanova Stoeva Federica Migliardi Guo Ankang Shao Yijan 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):352-367
Nowadays we can talk about a “Knowledge Revolution” because managing of information plays a crucial role in our society, both
in public and private sphere. After a brief introduction—aimed at underling the main points we will debate on—the first part
of the article focus on Knowledge Management techniques and knowledge-based government (k-Government) and the great potential
in respect to the public sector transformation. The second part takes into account the social dimension of knowledge managing
and the ethical relevance that social networking is progressively acquiring. After that, we have chosen to focus on global
warming, indeed, the last session is a detailed analysis of a real case study related to China’s energy security. In the end,
a wise use of Knowledge resources, trough the comparison with past experiences, turn out to be the powerful device that will
let us provide some useful suggestion for a significant public action.
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Shao YijanEmail: |
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Jiang Ru Leonard Ortolano 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(2):141-168
Social movement theories provide a framework for explaining the post-1990 rise in China’s citizen-organized environmental
nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs), which consisted of at least 128 organizations as of 2004. We use a political process
model, which is based on favorable political opportunities, cognitive liberation, and indigenous organizational strength,
to explain the sharp growth in citizen organized ENGOs. In addition, we employ a world society perspective to help clarify
why the political environment in China became favorable for ENGO growth, and how international ENGO practices were diffused
within China. Our analysis shows that the relatively high status of ENGO founders together with their personal and professional
networks also played important roles in ENGO growth.
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Jiang RuEmail: |