Selective Mobilization in Craft Protest |
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| Authors: | JEFFREY HAYDU |
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| Institution: | JEFFREY HAYDU is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California - SanDiego and author of Between C r a. and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890–1922 (University of California Press, 1988). |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Resource mobilization theory, while useful for understanding the conditions under which individuals act together to remedy their grievances, neglects other problematical features of collective action. In some settings the more interesting question is not why mobilization occurs but, instead, why individuals with varied grievances mobilize around certain goals and in certain alliances rather than others. Collective protest among skilled workers confronting industrial change illustrates this problem of selective mobilization. Characteristics of the labor process, craft unionism, industrial relations, and workshop organization favored the mobilization of some interests, goals, and coalitions and inhibited others. Contrasting patterns of protest among British engineers and American machinists before 1920 support the argument. |
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