Forging and Sustaining Labor–Community Coalitions: The Workfare Justice Movement in Three Cities

Krinsky, John; Reese, Ellen

doi:10.1007/s11206-006-9036-0

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“…Coalitions have come apart because of ideological conflicts over goals and tactics (Staggenborg 1986), framing disputes (Benford 1993), and the absence of ititernal structures available to handle conflict among partners (Levi and Murphy 2006). The timing of their dissolution has been infiuenced by changes in political opportunity (Meyer 1993;Meyer and Corrigall-Brown 2005;Tarrow 2005), increased police repression (Krinsky and Reese 2006;Tarrow 2005), resource competition (Krinsky and Reese 2006;Staggenborg 1986;Zald and McCarthy 1987), and increased resource access enabling a member to proceed independently (Jones et al 2001 ). A recent exploration of the consequences of coalition failure for activist networks indicates that the social ties of groups believed responsible for the coalition's break up weaken, while groups not associated with the demise benefit by becoming more central in underlying activist social networks (Heaney and Rojas 2008).…”

Section: Social Movement Coalition Formation and Dissolutionmentioning

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Legitimacy Management, Preservation of Exchange Relationships, and the Dissolution of the Mobilization for Global Justice Coalition

Gillham

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2011

Social Problems

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Throughout much of 2001 the Mobilization for Global Justice Coalition (MGJC) planned a series of mass demonstrations targeting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to occur in Washington. DC in late SeptemberThe terrorist attacks of September 11 created a crisis for the 117 social movement organizations (SMO) involved in the broad-based coalition and forced protest leaders to reevaluate their coalition strategy. This analysis chronicles the dissolution of the MGJC and explains the decisions made by SMO leaders to abandon or disband the coalition. By leading their organizations in ways they expected to be perceived as legitimate in the eyes of key allies and supporters, leaders sought to preserve their SMO's core exchange relationships through the 9/11 crisis. At a minimum, leaders sought to insulate their organizations from irreparable harm and position them competitively for the uncertainties of the post-crisis environment. Many organizations made decisions commensurate with homophilous or exemplary organizations in a process resembling "social contagion " while others capitalized on the crisis enhancing their infiuence. This research relies upon participant obser\'ations ofpre-and post-9/11 organizing meetings, examination of coalition documents, and interviews with key MGJC leaders.

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Section: Social Movement Coalition Formation and Dissolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimacy Management, Preservation of Exchange Relationships, and the Dissolution of the Mobilization for Global Justice Coalition

Gillham

Edwards²

2011

Social Problems

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“…Instead, it is necessary to tease out how and why conservative and corrupt unionism (not necessarily the same thing) can be uprooted, how and why labor-community coalitions can form, and why and how constricted visions and practices of trade unionism are resilient (e.g., Kimeldorf 1988;Voss and Fantasia 2004;Lopez 2004a, b;Milkman and Voss 2004;Rudy 2004;Krinsky and Reese 2006). Moreover, as an ever-decreasing portion of the US labor force is organized even into trade unions, it is important to investigate a broad range of organizational forms and organizing strategies upon which to build a new labor movement.…”

Section: Opportunities and Obstacles To Worker Organizingmentioning

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Constructing Workers: Working-Class Formation under Neoliberalism

Krinsky

2007

Qual Sociol

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This introduction to "Constructing Workers" places the contributions to the special issue in the context of a review of central themes in a broader literature on the definition of workers, their public identities, and their rights. This literature has developed over the past 30 years in sociology and, especially, in social and labor history. At the same time, a more recent literature has emerged, most clearly in the USA, but also in other national settings, on the changing role of labor unions and other types of labor organization in an increasingly global economy. The two sets of scholarship are growing closer together and addressing importantly related themes, relevant both to more incisive sociological and historical understanding of the modes of labor organizing and regulation and to contemporary efforts to combat neoliberal restructuring of labor and class relations.

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“…Similarly, New York's workfare program generated similar kinds of opposition as was found in other cities (due partly to multiscalar networks of activists). Krinsky and Reese (2006;Reese 2002) document community and labor groups' organizing against workfare in Los Angeles county and Milwaukee county. Others (e.g., Tait 2005) have documented opposition to workfare in San Francisco and other cities.…”

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“…Others (e.g., Tait 2005) have documented opposition to workfare in San Francisco and other cities. Krinsky and Reese (2006) found that internal union politics and resources, as well as the sectoral placement of workfare workers, exert strong influence on the stability of counter-workfare coalitions across cities.…”

Section: Finding Sources Of Variationmentioning

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The Urban Politics of Workfare

Krinsky

2007

Urban Affairs Review

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This article casts New York City's large, public-sector workfare program of the mid-1990s against political-economic, institutionalist, and culturalist explanations of welfare reform dynamics. It argues that the form and changes in welfare reform programs must increasingly be understood as intersecting with urban political dynamics. Synthesizing existing literatures on welfare and urban policy, the article urges explanations based on the intersection of urban labor-market and fiscal management, institutional rules, and analyses of multiscalar policy networks and urban regimes that (1) generate ideas about what constitutes policy success; (2) organize coalitions and disorganize potential opposition; and (3) import and export policy reform ideas to and from the local scale to larger scales of governance.

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Forging and Sustaining Labor–Community Coalitions: The Workfare Justice Movement in Three Cities

Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Legitimacy Management, Preservation of Exchange Relationships, and the Dissolution of the Mobilization for Global Justice Coalition

Legitimacy Management, Preservation of Exchange Relationships, and the Dissolution of the Mobilization for Global Justice Coalition

Constructing Workers: Working-Class Formation under Neoliberalism

The Urban Politics of Workfare

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