Social Movements and Social Inequality: Toward a More Balanced Assessment of the Relationship

Snow, David A.; Owens, Peter B.

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9002-4_26

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“…Yet how can businesses be engaged as partners and advocates in a living wage campaign? From Piven and Cloward's (1979) classic book Poor People's Movements to recent research on the occupy movement (Castells, 2013;Grusky et al, 2013), scholars have sought to understand the dynamics of movements that seek to reduce inequality and shape policies to reduce poverty (Piven, 2006;Snow and Owens, 2013). Other research demonstrates that new social movements emerging in response to shifting power relations, such as the shift to neoliberal globalization, can be a powerful force in resisting the negative consequences of privatization and growing inequality by creating strong advocacy coalitions or institutions that reduce poverty (Bebbington, 2009;Chun, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Certifying voluntary living wage employers

Ptashnick

Zuberi

2015

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Purpose -Living wage campaigns are popular responses to counter increasing inequality in advanced industrial countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine how voluntary living wage employer certification engages business in multi-sectoral coalitions to reduce poverty. Design/methodology/approach -The authors utilize qualitative interviews with 30 members of a living wage employer certification program in Vancouver, Canada as a case study to explore campaign participation by the business community and business case outcomes. Findings -Certifying voluntary living wage employers engaged business community members as partners and advocates in a living wage campaign. Certified living wage employers fulfilled business case projections for worker compensation fairness, human resource improvements and corporate branding advantages.Research limitations/implications -The study focussed on the early stages of a living wage employer certification program. As the number of living wage certification programs and ordinances grows, future research would benefit from examining how different social policy contexts in other Canadian and international regions affects whether these two avenues support one another or one avenue becomes favoured. Originality/value -Most studies of living wage campaigns have not dealt with how voluntary employer certification programs affect campaign participation and outcomes. The approach the authors adopt in the case takes into account the role of voluntary employer certification programs on campaign participation by the business community and business case outcomes. The study findings are of value to businesses, activists and policy analysts, who engage in or study corporate social responsibility initiatives to facilitate the creation of "good jobs" that provide family sustaining wages and benefits, particularly to lower-tier workers.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Certifying voluntary living wage employers

Ptashnick

Zuberi

2015

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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“…Put simply, collective identity is a sense of “we-ness” shared among members of a group (Snow & McAdam, 2000; Snow & Owens, 2014). More than a static characteristic that group members share, collective identity emerges through a series of group performances and interactions (Snow & Corrigall-Brown, 2015).…”

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“…More than a static characteristic that group members share, collective identity emerges through a series of group performances and interactions (Snow & Corrigall-Brown, 2015). Group members establish and maintain a collective identity with identity work that unites members under common goals or motivations (Snow & McAdam, 2000; Snow & Owens, 2014), and relevant collective action gives group members a shared sense of agency (Polletta & Jasper, 2001; Snow & Corrigall-Brown, 2015). Through these behaviors, collective identity exists at both an individual level that each group member experiences and a group level that unites members as a singular entity (Berstein & Olsen, 2009).…”

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“American Defenders Against an Illegal Invasion”: Dual Racialization Processes in Collective Identity Formation

Hummel

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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This paper considers how the anti-immigrant organization Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) uses discourse about immigrants and immigration to construct and maintain its collective identity. Although previous approaches to collective identity within organizations primarily center the organizations themselves, studies concerned with anti-immigrant discourse instead emphasize how the organizations that use such discourse racialize members of non-white (especially Latinx) groups as “illegal” residents of the United States who threaten the safety and economic well-being of Americans. Drawing from these two literatures to consider how anti-immigrant organizations construct collective identity, this study investigates how ALIPAC uses presentations its opposition and its membership together to shape the collective identity associated with the organization itself. Using a content analysis, 153 documents released by ALIPAC during 2005 and 2018, the study finds that ALIPAC uses a dual racialization process to racialize immigrants as criminal outsiders who, with assistance from political elites, have overwhelmed the United States and white Americans as victims of these criminal outsiders. From this dual racialization, ALIPAC identifies itself as a defender of American citizens against an immigrant invasion. These results illustrate how racialization and collective identity construction are relational processes understood through a group’s presentations of itself and its opposition.

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“…Recent analyses show that the continuum relative deprivation-grievance-protest is complex and crossed by several media-tions. On the one hand, social movements put in place mechanisms and similar processes of social psychology in relation to inequality (Snow & Owens, 2014). On the other hand its the influence of different affective and cognitive components (Van Zomeren, Postmes & Spears, 2008) or of the individual and collective dimension (Smith & Pettigrew, 2015) of relative deprivation in collective action, as well as the links between different types of inequality and types of movements (Snow & Owens, 2014).…”

Section: Social Movements and Communicative Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the one hand, social movements put in place mechanisms and similar processes of social psychology in relation to inequality (Snow & Owens, 2014). On the other hand its the influence of different affective and cognitive components (Van Zomeren, Postmes & Spears, 2008) or of the individual and collective dimension (Smith & Pettigrew, 2015) of relative deprivation in collective action, as well as the links between different types of inequality and types of movements (Snow & Owens, 2014). Collective action is considered a form of visibility of interests and aspirations by the aggrieved groups, through their discourse demands and specific actions (Snow & Owens, 2014).…”

Section: Social Movements and Communicative Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Desigualdad comunicativa en el repertorio discursivo de la acción colectiva: El caso de #YoSoy132

Bacallao-Pino

2015

Cuadernos.info

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The article analyzes how communicative inequality mediates the discourse associated with collective action. Based on the analysis of the Mexican #YoSoy132 (2012), it describes how, in a context characterized by a high media concentration and a particular articulation between the dominant media system and the hegemonic political parties, the democratization of communication becomes a main claim. The text shows how #YoSoy132 sets relevant discursive links between communicative inequality and social inequality in general. Online social networks are considered as a central resource for overcoming an unequal communicational order, but also some risks and challenges associated with the use of these technological platforms and with the centrality of the communicative dimension are identified. The article concludes that communicative inequality is multidimensional and that its centrality in the discursive repertoire of the social movement #YoSoy132 has significant consequences for collective action and even for the continuity of the movement. Desigualdad comunicativa en el repertorio discursivo de la acción colectiva: El caso de #YoSoy132 RESUMENPalabras clave: Desigualdad comunicativa, democratización, concentración mediática, acción colectiva, redes sociales.

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Social Movements and Social Inequality: Toward a More Balanced Assessment of the Relationship

Cited by 17 publications

References 60 publications

Certifying voluntary living wage employers

Certifying voluntary living wage employers

“American Defenders Against an Illegal Invasion”: Dual Racialization Processes in Collective Identity Formation

Desigualdad comunicativa en el repertorio discursivo de la acción colectiva: El caso de #YoSoy132

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