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Reviving the American Labour Movement: Institutions and Mobilization

Cornell University, USA, rwh8{at}cornell.edu

Ruth Milkman

University of California at Los Angeles, USA, milkman{at}soc.ucla.edu

Lowell Turner

Cornell University, USA, lrt4{at}cornell.edu

The current revitalization of the American labour movement is driven primarily by two forces: from above, new strategic leadership in some unions and at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), ready to offer institutional support for local efforts to organize, build coalitions and expand the scope of grass-roots politics; from below, renewed interest in rank-and-file activism and participation. We call these two forces institutional support and network mobilization, and we find indications of their overriding importance in all six union strategies on which our case-study research focuses: organizing, political action, coalition building, labour-management partnership, organizational change and international solidarity.

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