Community Unionism: Organising for Fair Employment in Canada

Cranford, Cynthia J.; Ladd, Deena

doi:10.25071/1705-1436.167

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“…These organizational imperatives conflict with changing labor markets and workers' needs. Yet, emerging forms of community-based union representation still offer some hope, as seen in work by the United Food and Commercial Workers with migrant agricultural workers (Cranford & Ladd 2003;Basok 2007), and British Columbia unions with day care workers (Yates 2010).…”

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Workers on the move: can unions keep up to changes in community?

Leach

Yates

2015

Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic rel

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The radical restructuring of contemporary labor markets, combined with the weakening of welfare states, has extended and deepened the commodification of labor and the experience of risk and insecurity at work. In the face of increasingly uncertain hours of work, or confronted with layoff or unemployment, people become more mobile. This can take the form of searching for work further afield, or moving house to reduce costs. Mobility therefore becomes a strategy for mitigating risk, albeit shaped by class, race, and gender. We argue that such mobility shifts how workers imagine and live in their communities, stressing and stretching their key social relationships across space, while at the same time diminishing peoples' capacity for solidarity. We go on to argue that as workers respond to labor market pressures with increased mobility, the correspondence between community and workplace, workplace and residence is further eroded. This poses new challenges for the constitution of community, and solidarity, amongst workers, and ultimately for the capacity of unions to represent workers. Based on interviews with workers, we develop three themes from these interviews: the strains introduced to workers' sense of place and community by different forms of mobility; the gendered nature of mobility; and race, immigrant status, and mobility. In the final section of the essay, we discuss how some workers resist the isolating and demobilizing effects of workplace and work reorganization by constituting or reconstituting a sense of community. We then conclude with some reflections on how increased mobility and declining community cohesion impact union strategic capacities.

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Workers on the move: can unions keep up to changes in community?

Leach

Yates

2015

Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic rel

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“…In this conceptual article, the authors analyse the importance of the local knowledge held by local managers working for the subsidiaries of MNEs. Existing research has shown that the knowledge of local managers may be relatively under appreciated by the MNE's headquarters and by expatriate managers (Atamer and Schweiger, 2003;Cranford and Ladd, 2003;Fine, 2005;Goodall and Roberts, 2003). In this article, the authors analyse why such under appreciation of local manager's knowledge may be an even bigger issue for MNEs operating in bottom of pyramid countries (Hahn, 2009).…”

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Responsible Leadership for Multinational Enterprises in Bottom of Pyramid Countries: The Knowledge of Local Managers

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Kim

2011

J Bus Ethics

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“…In this way, RAP is akin to a workers' center model seen across North America, including with the Restaurant Opportunities Centers and Migrant Workers Centers (e.g. Black 2012; Choudry and Thomas 2012;Cranford and Ladd 2003). If someone is moving between retail jobs, currently unemployed but looking for work in retail, or is a long-serving worker in a nonunionized store, he or she can nevertheless contribute to and benefit from RAP.…”

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Raising Retail

Coulter

2013

Labor Studies Journal

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Retail workers are a significant but largely unorganized group in Canada and the United States. However, in recent years, there has been a marked increase in efforts to organize retail workers, including pursuit of innovative structures and strategies. The author focuses on the dominant threads of contemporary retail organizing work in Canada and the United States, outlining three current organizing vehicles: unionization, store-based networks, and occupation or sector-based associations. The author then reflects on the strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities of these approaches, independently and collectively, and emphasizes the need to confront the social and cultural as well as the economic devaluation of retail workers.

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Community Unionism: Organising for Fair Employment in Canada

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Workers on the move: can unions keep up to changes in community?

Workers on the move: can unions keep up to changes in community?

Responsible Leadership for Multinational Enterprises in Bottom of Pyramid Countries: The Knowledge of Local Managers

Raising Retail

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