Trouble on the Right, Trouble on the Left

Glende, Philip M.

doi:10.1080/00947679.2012.12062883

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“…Some publishers, recognizing that their papers' readers were often themselves union members, responded positively (Glende, 2012a). Yet, most benefited from reporters' continued resistance to the working-class label (Glende, 2012b). Moreover, Glende notes, reporting about the labor movement while also a union member was seen as toeing the line between one's own interests and politics, challenging the professional norms of objectivity and neutrality.…”

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We’ve Got a Union, Now What?

Assmann

2024

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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Precarious economic conditions, low pay, layoffs, and dwindling job security motivated journalists to organize in record numbers in the 2010s and 2020s. Cohen and De Peuter’s 2020 research on newsworkers’ motives and organizing strategies in digital newsrooms finds that economic, political, and cultural factors play a role. Pay equity, a more diverse and inclusive newsroom, and a voice in editorial and strategic decision-making are often cited as arguments for union membership. This monograph asks how newsworkers assess the effect of unionization and guild membership on their work, working conditions, and culture. Interviews with 45 journalists in 16 U.S. newsrooms with unions, both established and recently organized, suggest that several goals, such as pay equity, diversity, and inclusion, have not been achieved. Nevertheless, the act of organizing and the managerial work accomplished by union leadership in the newsroom is creating both institutional change and opportunity. A parallel organizational culture is emerging that mitigates poor leadership and human resource management and serves as training ground for a new class of journalists.

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confidence: 99%

We’ve Got a Union, Now What?

Assmann

2024

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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“The Worst Divorce Case that Ever Happened”: TheNew York TimesWomen's Caucus and Workplace Feminism

Whyte¹

2020

Mod. Am. Hist.

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In 1974, women at the New York Times made national headlines when they filed a class-action sex discrimination lawsuit. The drama of the court case, however, has overshadowed the formation of the Times Women's Caucus two years prior, in 1972. A focus on the Caucus, the daily labor its members undertook in the years before and after filing suit, and the behind-the-scenes negotiation of internal office politics reveals the years-long process of consciousness raising and workplace organizing required to undertake a lawsuit in this novel legal area. Activist newswomen operated with unique restrictions and necessarily distanced themselves from the feminist movement, while quietly advocating for feminist goals. Caucus members drew from the feminist, labor, and union movements strategically rather than ideologically, and laid the foundation for substantial shifts in women's participation and representation in the mainstream media.

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The 1935 Labour Dispute at theAmsterdam Newsand the Challenges Posed by the Rise of Unionism in Depression-Era Harlem

Ayers

2014

J. Am. Stud.

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The eleven-week dispute at theAmsterdam Newsin Harlem was the first time in US history that black workers were successful in a labour dispute with black management. Some contemporaries argued that the event represented a triumph for the class-inspired activism of the left, an interpretation in line with the historiography of the long civil rights movement. This article argues that the dispute actually demonstrated the challenges inherent in pursuing labour-based protest strategies. Success was achieved by a concentrated group of workers who used their collective power and propitious geographical and social standing to harness the support of a cross-section of leadership groups. This moment of apparent unity concealed enduring divides over interracial activism, not only between nationalist groups and the radical left but also within mainstream groups like the NAACP. Temporary success could be achieved when workers like theAmsterdam Newsstaff managed to bridge these divides. Supporters, however, proved unable to avoid the subsequent dismissal of union instigators by the newspaper's new owners. More broadly, the problems of coordinating activism to target the different groups who controlled black employment continued to bedevil subsequent protests during the transformative era of the New Deal.

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Trouble on the Right, Trouble on the Left

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

We’ve Got a Union, Now What?

We’ve Got a Union, Now What?

“The Worst Divorce Case that Ever Happened”: TheNew York TimesWomen's Caucus and Workplace Feminism

The 1935 Labour Dispute at theAmsterdam Newsand the Challenges Posed by the Rise of Unionism in Depression-Era Harlem

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