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Labor Studies Journal
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.197

Number of Followers: 11

Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 0160-449X - ISSN (Online) 1538-9758
Published by Sage Publications

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Book Review: Fight Like Hell: The Untold Story of American Labor by Kim
Kelly
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  Authors: Alex Miller
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-06-27T07:03:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221109862
Book Review: Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema
by Karen Pinkus
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  Authors: Fred Glass
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-06-03T08:09:41Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221092018
Does Union Canvassing Affect Voter Turnout Under Conditions of Political
Constraint' Empirical Evidence from Illinois
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  Authors: Weihao Li, J. Ryan Lamare, Robert Bruno
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  The positive effects of union canvassing on individual-level union member voter turnout within union-friendly environments have been well documented. Yet, whether unions increase turnout among their membership under constrained circumstances has remained unexamined. Furthermore, there is little consensus on whether union canvassing effects are generalizable to populations with heterogeneous political attributes and individual characteristics. This paper identifies the mechanisms that might explain how union canvassing can be effective under conditions characterized by anti-union legislative actions, adversarial judicial decisions, and right-wing populist rhetoric. We use canvassing and turnout data taken from the 2016 Democratic state and Cook County primary election in Illinois, and our results show that, despite constrained political circumstances relative to those found in previous studies, union canvassing achieved positive union membership turnout effects. This study also tests the moderating effects of individual political attributes (ideology and vote propensity) and voter characteristics (income and ethnicity). The most salient finding is that the effects are more potent for ideologically conservative registered Democrat voters, highlighting the imperative of recognizing the ideological heterogeneity among union members and suggesting specific resource allocation strategies under politically constrained conditions.
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-02-16T06:24:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221074153
Mobilizing Worker Rights: The Challenges of Claims-Driven Processes for
Re-Regulating the Labor Market
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  Authors: Jacob Lesniewski, Shannon Gleeson
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  Low-wage workers continue to face high levels of exploitation in the workplace. The regulatory frameworks that exist to protect workers and provide avenues for redress for violations of workers’ rights rely on individual or collective claims-making by workers. Worker centers have developed creative mobilization strategies to support worker claims and build worker power in the low-wage labor market. This paper leverages qualitative case study data to better understand the process of worker claims-making and the psychosocial toll it can take on workers. Based on these case studies, this paper argues that worker centers and other alt-labor groups need to take into account the costs and challenges for workers endemic to the claims-making process under current regulatory regimes.
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-01-11T03:20:24Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X211072565
Union Democracy, Union Bureaucracy, and the Left
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  Authors: Victor G. Devinatz
  First page: 137
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  To have healthy union democracy, it is essential for the Left to be active in unions. Leftist unions are more democratic than non-leftist unions on all measures of union democracy including the absence of union corruption, the quantity of union factions, the presence of grassroots militancy, and union member participation in social movement unionism and community unionism. Additionally, although union democracy is associated with union effectiveness, restrictions on union democracy and decisions implemented by the union bureaucracy might be advantageous to the union as an organization in certain situations. If the survival of the union as an organization is at stake, it will be necessary for the union bureaucracy to make decisions, independent of rank-and-file union members. Although potentially denoting an infringement on union democracy, such decisions might aid the union as an organization, especially with the existence of a progressive union bureaucracy.
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-02-24T11:39:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221080371
Labor Unions and Democracy: A Long View
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  Authors: Rosemary Feurer
  First page: 149
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  This essay historicizes some of Stephen Ashby's findings, and elaborates on a thesis that union democracy is weak in the United States because capitalist opposition was so strong in a formative stage of union development. It introduces a brief survey of the first major U.S. industrial union, the United Mine Workers of America, to show that leadership cordoned off more radical alternatives in service to capital and to middle class and political operatives influence. It introduces a brief survey of the first major industrial union, the United Mine Workers to show that leadership cordoned off more radical alternatives in service to capital and to middle class and political operatives influence. Union leadership responded to that challenge with highly centralized control that blocked more democratic and struggle-based unionism. This had long term consequences through the next insurgency the Congress of Industrial Organizations. These historic influences are operative in the present, when workers seek power to build a counter to the growing inequality of wealth.
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-02-28T04:13:14Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221080379
Legal Support for Union Democracy
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  Authors: Alan Hyde
  First page: 160
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-04-27T07:58:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221096406
Union Democracy: A European Perspective
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  Authors: Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick
  First page: 170
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  This paper, written partly in response to Steven Ashby’s article for this journal, ‘Union Democracy in Today’s Labor Movement’, explores the meaning and practice of internal trade union democracy in Europe. Agreeing with many of Ashby’s arguments around the importance and desirability of union democracy, I consider the definition of union democracy, and the question of whether and why it matters. I then present some of the main dimensions of the national models of the main western European unions and how they affect the practice of union democracy. These dimensions include the formal decision-making structures, such as those regarding the setting of policy, the election of representatives, and the payment of dues. Other important aspects include the reliance on paid officials as opposed to lay members and elected officers, and the degree of centralisation or de-centralisation. Beyond this, there is the question of the relationship between unions within countries, whether there is a single national confederation or multiple confederations, and the degree to which they are cooperative or competitive. This part of the article highlights the many differences between trade unions in the United States and in the major European countries. Despite these differences, however, unions in many countries suffer from similar impediments to internal democracy and are seeking ways to build greater democracy. I conclude that unions on both sides of the Atlantic have much to learn from each other, and that internal union democracy can increase the dynamism and effectiveness of unions in their struggles with external forces.
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-05-02T07:34:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221096409
Book Review: Strategizing Against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student
Activism, and Worker Empowerment by Williams, Matthew
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  Authors: Jelena Starcevic
  First page: 204
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-05-06T11:43:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221090139
Book Review: Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Dean, Jodi
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  Authors: Adam Zvric
  First page: 205
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-04-11T02:35:31Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221090140
Book Review: Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in
American Metal Mining, 1850–1950 by Roll, Jarod
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  Authors: Irem Yildirim
  First page: 207
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2022-04-11T02:35:42Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X221090141
Union Democracy in Today's Labor Movement
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  Authors: Steven K. Ashby
  First page: 109
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2021-11-17T12:35:15Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X211044903
Union Activism and the Baseball Hall of Fame Voting Process:
Labor-Management Conflict and Media Bias
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  Authors: Matthew Hinkel, Patrick P. McHugh
  First page: 180
  Abstract: Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print.
  Media bias is well documented in the industrial relations domain. This paper extends this research by exploring whether union participation among former professional baseball players affects the likelihood of moving through two stages of the selection process for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame (HOF), a selection process controlled by sports media. At the HOF ballot inclusion stage, union activism increased position players’ and pitchers’ likelihoods of inclusion, regardless of time period. Conversely, at the HOF voting stage, position players who were union representatives during labor-management conflict (i.e., strikes and lockouts) received significantly less votes than non-activists, while position players who were representatives during labor-management cooperation received significantly more votes. Union activism did not affect pitchers at this stage. We conclude that union activists can be subject to negative media bias during labor-management conflict that, in turn, negatively affects post-employment outcomes.
  Citation: Labor Studies Journal
  PubDate: 2021-10-29T10:58:17Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0160449X211049252