Status Divisions and Worker Mobilization

Dixon, Marc

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“…Contrary to claims found in the literatures on homophily and class formation, the diversity of the living wage campaign was not an obstacle to be overcome but was – when experienced in the context of events that disrupted the rhythms of daily life – a source of the very kind of solidarity it is assumed to preclude. Our results thus support the small but growing body of research which suggests that diversity does not necessarily preclude solidarity: whether it becomes an impediment to collective action, as conventional accounts maintain, or instead fuels more expansive forms of identity and solidarity, as in Chicago, depends less on the existence of difference per se than on how those differences come to be understood in the course of social struggle (Bernstein ; Bickford ; Dixon ).…”

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Eventful Subjectivity: The Experiential Sources of Solidarity

Meyer¹,

Kimeldorf²

2014

J Historical Sociology

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Scholarship on events has been devoted primarily to large‐scale occurrences that transform macro structures. Here we put forward a perspective that we term eventful subjectivity which moves the analysis of events in two related directions. First, we shift the arena of eventful analysis from rare world historical occurrences to smaller, more frequent events. Second, we direct attention away from macro‐structural outcomes to micro‐level changes in understanding. We employ the framework of eventful subjectivity to examine a living wage campaign in Chicago, demonstrating how the multi‐faceted diversity of the campaign – in the context of collective action – engendered solidarity rather than fragmentation.

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Eventful Subjectivity: The Experiential Sources of Solidarity

Meyer¹,

Kimeldorf²

2014

J Historical Sociology

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“…On the contrary, the regular workers union's indifference, and particularly, interference, has a negative impact on the outcomes of the latter group's struggle. This finding reaffirms that status division among regular and nonregular workers does preclude their joint/solidarity protest action, as indicated by Dixon (2004). At the same time, since non-regular workers unions lack their own resources to mobilize for protest action against employers' oppression, their struggle is heavily influenced by the regular workers unions' attitudes.…”

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Worker Militancy at the Margins: Struggles of Non-regular Workers in South Korea

Lee¹

2016

Development and Society

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Pitting the Working Class against Itself: Solidarity, Strikebreaking, and Strike Outcomes in the Early US Labor Movement

2022

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It is axiomatic that high-risk activism requires solidarity if social movements are to have success in struggles against powerful adversaries. However, there is little research that attempts to gauge the impact of various types, limits, or breakdown of solidarity directly and systematically. Drawing from historical political economy, cultures of class formation, and social movement outcome literatures, we address the question of solidarity’s impact across dimensions and at various levels of scale (i.e., at the point of production or firm level, local community, and wider society) by analyzing the outcomes of more than 4,500 strikes during the late-nineteenth-century rise of US industrial capitalism. We find that while strike solidarity at the point of production is necessary, it is not sufficient for success. Disruption costs that strikers seek to impose to gain leverage can be significantly reduced by the countertactic of hiring strikebreaking replacement workers recruited from the local community or imported from beyond. We also find that the urban regime of strike policing matters by moderating the impact of strikebreakers. The most powerful predictor of strike outcomes is employer use of replacement workers, signaling the key to undermining working-class strike solidarity directly pits the working class against itself. Intraclass solidarity is necessary for the success in interclass struggle but needs to extend beyond the struck firm implicating the importance of solidarity of the surrounding community and wider social factory. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding the historic formation of the US labor movement and its present predicament.

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Status Divisions and Worker Mobilization

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Eventful Subjectivity: The Experiential Sources of Solidarity

Eventful Subjectivity: The Experiential Sources of Solidarity

Worker Militancy at the Margins: Struggles of Non-regular Workers in South Korea

Pitting the Working Class against Itself: Solidarity, Strikebreaking, and Strike Outcomes in the Early US Labor Movement

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