The Squeaky Wheel's Dilemma: New Forms of Labor Organizing in the Philippines

McKay, Steven C.

doi:10.1353/lab.2005.0072

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“…For example, in the Philippines, all national laws officially apply in EPZs. In practice, however, the Philippines Economic Zone Authority, often allows firms in the EPZ to circumvent these laws (McKay 2006).…”

Section: Gender-related Challenges Of Globalizationmentioning

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Toward gender equality in East Asia and the Pacific: a companion to the World development report

2013

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Some rights reserved 1 2 3 4 15 14 13 12 This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. Note that The World Bank does not necessarily own each component of the content included in the work. The World Bank therefore does not warrant that the use of the content contained in the work will not infringe on the rights of third parties. The risk of claims resulting from such infringement rests solely with you.The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifically reserved.

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Section: Gender-related Challenges Of Globalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward gender equality in East Asia and the Pacific: a companion to the World development report

2013

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“…He calls for more attention to small grassroots movements who, his argument goes, are able to achieve better results at the local scale (2009, p. 575). Wells reviews several cases around the world, in which he finds that the more a network puts local struggles first, the better results will be achieved, as McKay (2006) pointed out regarding the Philippines.…”

Section: Local Transformations Through Transnational Websmentioning

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Advocacy Networks Through a Multidisciplinary Lens: Implications for Research Agendas

Acosta

2011

Voluntas

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Advocacy networks are coalitions of movements and organizations that in recent years have gained unprecedented levels of influence through their soft power strategies. They have become key political actors in local, national and international arenas. Research on their performance and role within today's information society has been developed by academics from different disciplines. Some of these analyses, however, seem to portray them as a new actor within an alreadyexisting structure. This article argues that the network structure of these associations requires for a multifaceted and multidisciplinary approach in order to better understand how they are changing the political and social landscape. In order to achieve this purpose, this article is divided in two parts: the first one offers an overview of existing literature on the subject from different disciplines and at different scales, while the second part puts forward a framework to consider all relevant spheres of these networks for better analyses. As will be noted in the literature review, most of the case studies have been carried out from a clear disciplinary focus with its own set of categories and focus on preferred dynamics. This approach reduces the density of the networks by portraying them as other already-known institutions. One example of this is that of scales of action, usually defined as local, national, international or transnational. By focusing solely on the arena of direct influence, other interactions that may be central to the network are thus ignored or minimized. In order to disentangle such misrepresentations, it is suggested here to consider five dimensions of analysis in the study of advocacy networks: (1) scales of action and interaction, (2) cultural contexts and legacies, (3) network logic, (4) discourse production and contestation and (5) institutional ecosystem. By considering the implications of all five of them, it is proposed here, accounts may yield more comprehensive analyses of how these webs of civil society groups are transforming the political landscape.Résumé Les réseaux de défense d'intérêts sont des coalitions de mouvements et des organisations qui au cours des dernières années se sont dotés de niveaux d'influence sans précédent grâce à leurs stratégies de soft power. Ils sont devenus des acteurs politiques clés dans les arènes locales, nationales et internationales. Des chercheurs issus de différentes disciplines ont étudié leurs performances ainsi que leur rôle au sein de la société de l'information contemporaine. Certaines de ces analyses semblent cependant les décrire comme un nouvel acteur au sein d'une structure d'ores et déjà existante. Cet article allègue que la structure de réseau de ces associations exige une approche pluridisciplinaire aux facettes multiples afin de mieux comprendre la manière dont elles transforment le paysage politique et social. Dans cet objectif, cet article comporte deux parties : la première est une présentation des publications existantes sur le sujet issues de différentes discipl...

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“…Recalling Braudel, we remember Eric Wolf's (1982) Europe and the People without History and his Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century (Wolf, 1969). We also see more contemporary works on peasants in the world, that understand peasant occupations as a way of being in the new world order of neo-liberal governance (Edelman, 1998(Edelman, , 1999(Edelman, , 2005; subaltern studies of infra-political resistances to world ordering (Critchely, 2006;Marzo, 2007;Mathers and Novelli, 2007;Phillips, 2006;Sivaramakrishnan, 2005;Zibechi, 2005) and many works on resistance in export zones (Allen, 1992;Armbruster-Sandoval, 1999;Holland and Brady, 1982;McKay, 2006;Ong, 1987). Reading through references and bibliographies, reasoning by similarities, affinities and connivance, we become aware of moving through many sub-fields at the limits of established academic disciplines: multi-sited ethnography and anthropology, radical geography, transnational or trans-local sociology, critical international relations (IR), transnational labour geography.…”

Section: Global Society Plebeian Ways Of Being In the Worldmentioning

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Global Discipline and Dissent in theLongue Durée

Drainville

2011

Globalizations

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Inquiries into global discipline and dissent are apt to carry thinking from the most situated and specific instances of power and counter-power to broad structural orders, in a manner that is remarkably independent of political mediation and thus respectful of the ways in which actually existing human beings negotiate lives sutured at the intersection of the local and the global. This article is part of a broader theoretical project that is informed by historical research on a wide variety of movements of resistance against world orderingfrom slave revolts at the beginning of the nineteenth century, to coolies uprisings in the twentieth, to gas and water wars at the beginning of the twenty-first. In it, I come to distinguish between two modes of relation to the world economy. In creative dislocation, situated life gets resolved before being carried off, neat and bereft of possibilities, into the global. In the process, a putative subject gets made that carries a reified sense of itself. In the dialectics of presence, the unresolved lot of situated life gets taken whole to the world economy. Wars of position give way to wars of movement. Dialectically, positions come to be charged with a sense of context and possibilities. World-historical subjects sometimes make themselves for a while, from conditions that were not of their choosing.

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The Squeaky Wheel's Dilemma: New Forms of Labor Organizing in the Philippines

Cited by 12 publications

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Toward gender equality in East Asia and the Pacific: a companion to the World development report

Toward gender equality in East Asia and the Pacific: a companion to the World development report

Advocacy Networks Through a Multidisciplinary Lens: Implications for Research Agendas

Global Discipline and Dissent in theLongue Durée

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