Doctoral Dissertation Research: Secure Work in the Worker-Cooperative Sector

博士论文研究：工人合作社部门的安全工作

• 批准号: 1904302
• 负责人: Neal Caren
• 金额: $ 1.21万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1904302&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Secure; Work

This project will study the expanding worker cooperative sector in New York City. Three research questions will be investigated: 1) how relevant stakeholders conceive of and view worker ownership; 2) how municipal investment in the worker cooperative sector affects the worker cooperative movement; and 3) the effects of worker ownership on labor security. Through this research, issues facing workers and their communities, including the importance communities have for workers' economic well-being, will be understood better. Understanding of how workers' autonomous efforts may change when external actors become involved in promoting those efforts also will be increased. This, in turn, will inform our knowledge of how policies at local, regional, and national levels may be developed to support the creation of secure employment.Research will proceed in two phases. The first phase will involve semi-structured interviews with different actors throughout the field of cooperative organizations in New York City, observations of cooperative sector events, and archival research. Those interviewed will include worker-owners from a purposive sample of worker cooperatives, community economic development professionals, leaders of cooperative federations and advocacy organizations, and local political representatives. In the second phase, two relevant two surveys will be analyzed, the 2017 Worker Co-op Census and three work-related modules of the General Social Survey. The products of this research, including a report on the New York worker-cooperative sector and presentations at cooperative-sector conferences and community economic development events, will be accessible to a diverse audience including community-based economic development organizations, economic development policymakers at the local, regional and national levels, workers across labor-market sectors and skill levels, and academics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将研究纽约市不断扩大的工人合作社部门。 将调查三个研究问题：1）相关利益相关者如何构想和看待工人所有权； 2）城市对工人合作社部门的投资如何影响工人合作社运动； 3）工人所有制对劳动保障的影响。通过这项研究，人们将更好地了解工人及其社区面临的问题，包括社区对工人经济福祉的重要性。 当外部参与者参与促进工人的自主努力时，人们对这些努力可能会如何变化的理解也将得到加强。 反过来，这将使我们了解如何制定地方、区域和国家层面的政策来支持创造安全就业。研究将分两个阶段进行。 第一阶段将涉及对纽约市合作组织领域不同参与者的半结构化访谈、合作部门事件的观察以及档案研究。 受访者将包括来自工人合作社的有针对性样本的工人业主、社区经济发展专业人员、合作社联合会和倡导组织的领导人以及当地政治代表。 在第二阶段，将分析两项相关的两项调查：2017 年工人合作社人口普查和综合社会调查的三个与工作相关的模块。这项研究的产品，包括关于纽约工人合作社部门的报告以及在合作社部门会议和社区经济发展活动中的演讲，将向不同的受众开放，包括社区经济发展组织、地方、区域和国家各级的经济发展政策制定者、劳动力市场部门和技能水平的工人以及学者。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用以下评估方法被认为值得支持： 基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。