US Labor Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Laborism Without Labor

被引:13
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作者
Rosenfeld, Jake [1 ]
机构
[1] Washington Univ St Louis, Dept Sociol, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
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关键词
labor; inequality; collective action; UNITED-STATES; POLITICAL-PARTICIPATION; INCOME INEQUALITY; UNION MEMBERSHIP; WAGE INEQUALITY; POWER RESOURCES; UNIONIZATION; STRIKES; RISE; BIAS;
D O I
10.1146/annurev-soc-073018-022559
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
In recent years, labor studies has flourished even as labor unions in the United States have continued their long-term downward trajectory. One strain of this research has situated the labor movement, and its decline, at the center of economic inequality's rise in the United States. Another has explored the labor movement's interconnections with political dynamics in the contemporary United States, including how labor's demise has reshaped the polity and policies. This body of scholarship also offers insights into recent stirrings of labor resurgence, ranging from the teachers' strikes of 2017 to the Fight for 15 minimum wage initiatives. Yet the field's reliance on official union membership rates as the standard measure of union strength, and on official strike statistics as the standard measure of union activism, prevents it from fully understanding the scope and durability of worker activism in the post-Wagner age.
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页码:449 / 465
页数:17
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