Doctoral Dissertation Research: Innovation, Revitalization and Organizational Change in the American Labor Movement

博士论文研究：美国劳工运动的创新、振兴与组织变革

• 批准号: 0526565
• 负责人: Kim Voss
• 金额: $ 0.74万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0526565&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Innovation; Revitalization

This dissertation research examines revitalization in American labor unions. After decades of quiescence, more and more unions are abandoning an older model of "business" unionism for one that emphasizes strategic creativity, worker mobilization, community coalition, and the organization of workers outside the exclusionary bounds of the post-war labor movement: low-wage service workers, women, people of color, and immigrants. In order to explain these changes in the labor movement, the project compares two national unions that have undergone significant organizational reform with two that have not. The former includes Service Employees International Union and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union and the latter, the more traditional United Food and Commercial Workers Union and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. Data will be collected from in-depth interviews with union staff and elected union officials who were present during key organizational transitions in the 1980s and 1990s. Change may occur in organizations when leaders are elected is a political process where reformers with new ideas gain the confidence of rank-and-file members and key leaders by offering compelling interpretations of problems and their solutions and by substantiating their new vision through instances of concrete success. It is hypothesized that in the 1980s and 1990s this was more likely to occur in national unions that were structured to facilitate local innovations. Broader Impact. Research on the pathways and obstacles to reform within the American labor movement will help us to better understand the process of change in democratic organizations.

本论文研究美国工会的复兴。经过几十年的沉寂，越来越多的工会正在放弃旧的“商业”工会主义模式，转而强调战略创造力，工人动员，社区联盟以及战后劳工运动排斥范围之外的工人组织：低工资服务工人，妇女，有色人种和移民。为了解释劳工运动中的这些变化，该项目比较了两个进行了重大组织改革的国家工会和两个没有进行改革的国家工会。 前者包括服务业雇员国际工会和酒店雇员和餐馆雇员工会，后者包括更传统的联合食品和商业工人工会和美国州、县、市雇员联合会。数据将收集从深入采访工会工作人员和当选的工会官员谁是在1980年代和1990年代的关键组织过渡在场。当领导人当选时，组织中可能会发生变化，这是一个政治过程，在这个过程中，具有新思想的改革者通过对问题及其解决办法提出令人信服的解释，并通过具体的成功事例来证实他们的新愿景，从而赢得普通成员和主要领导人的信任。据推测，在1980年代和1990年代，这种情况更有可能发生在为促进地方创新而组建的全国性工会中。更广泛的影响。 研究美国劳工运动内部改革的路径和障碍，有助于我们更好地理解民主组织的变革过程。