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Lesniewski, Jacob Peter.

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Constant contestation: Dilemmas of organizing, advocacy, and individual interventions at a worker center.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Constant contestation: Dilemmas of organizing, advocacy, and individual interventions at a worker center./
Author:	Lesniewski, Jacob Peter.
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
Subject:	Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3568556
ISBN:	9781303231650

Constant contestation: Dilemmas of organizing, advocacy, and individual interventions at a worker center.
Lesniewski, Jacob Peter.

Constant contestation: Dilemmas of organizing, advocacy, and individual interventions at a worker center. - 200 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2013.

The structures that undergirded the relative prosperity for many workers in the developed world up to the 1970s has largely broken down. In its wake, a multifarious set of policies and institutions have emerged to the detriment of low-wage workers. The weakening of the regulatory apparatus that governed work in the United States, combined with the decline in power of labor unions, have left low-wage workers facing increased abuse in the workplace. Workplace abuse and violations of labor law have increased levels not seen since the industrial sweatshops of the early 20th century. The federal government's ability to enforce labor law has declined to the point that it is unable able to keep up with the complaints received from workers, or engage in pro-active investigations of workplace abuses.

ISBN: 9781303231650Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017858
Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations.

Constant contestation: Dilemmas of organizing, advocacy, and individual interventions at a worker center.
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520 $a The structures that undergirded the relative prosperity for many workers in the developed world up to the 1970s has largely broken down. In its wake, a multifarious set of policies and institutions have emerged to the detriment of low-wage workers. The weakening of the regulatory apparatus that governed work in the United States, combined with the decline in power of labor unions, have left low-wage workers facing increased abuse in the workplace. Workplace abuse and violations of labor law have increased levels not seen since the industrial sweatshops of the early 20th century. The federal government's ability to enforce labor law has declined to the point that it is unable able to keep up with the complaints received from workers, or engage in pro-active investigations of workplace abuses.
520 $a Worker centers represent an attempt by workers and worker-advocates to change the conditions of work for low-wage workers. This research describes and analyzes how worker centers attempt to improve conditions of work for low-wage immigrant workers by engaging in an ethnographic study of a worker center in Chicago, Illinois. This project is a multi-method qualitative case study of Arise-Chicago, a worker center located on the North Side of Chicago. Arise Chicago is particularly interesting because it uses an individual intervention, called a workplace justice campaign, to achieve broader collective outcomes (defined as collective benefits) for low-wage immigrant workers. This dissertation therefore asks the question of whether, how, and to what end the individual intervention of the workplace justice campaign achieve collective benefits for low-wage immigrant workers. The research includes 18 months of participant observation research, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups. This dissertation finds that the individual intervention of Arise Chicago achieves subjective individual changes in participants and provides them with new skills in activism and organizing. It finds that the worker center has been to date less successful in achieving collective benefits for low-wage immigrant workers through the subjective individual changes and new skills achieved in the workplace justice campaign. The dissertation closes with reflections on possible strategies Arise Chicago can implement to better achieve collective benefits.
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