Globel Restructuring and Union Mobilization: An Analysis of Hotel Unionization in San Francisco, California

跨国移民和全球重组在旧金山造成了一种反常的情况，当地一个强大的工会越来越多地由女性和移民组成，它的合同覆盖了四分之三的较好的酒店，工资明显高于可比的未加入工会的城市。移民到美国的亚裔和拉丁裔工人的增加通常被指责为工会相对衰落的原因。这个项目涉及加州大学戴维斯分校的一位文化人类学家和她的研究生，将研究旧金山酒店业的工会和劳资关系。该项目将结合对当地酒店业的历史发展和结构、经济结构，特别是当地工会组织的历史的档案研究。在这种情况下，对关键行为者的深入访谈将侧重于工会动员的关键事件、妇女和移民的作用以及经济和人口结构调整的影响。这一案例研究将提炼和建立最新的社会运动政治过程理论，这些理论倾向于淡化地方利益、活动和意义，有利于国家结构、限制和机会。这项研究将提供一个重要的深入案例研究，促进我们对与移徙、性别、经济结构调整和工会有关的基本原因的理解。

Transnational migration and global restructuring have produced an anomalous situation in San Francisco, where a powerful local labor union that is increasingly female and immigrant has contracts covering three quarters of the better hotels, with wages significantly higher than comparable non-unionized cities. The increase in immigration of Asian and Latino workers to the U.S. has usually been accused of responsibility for the relative decline of labor unions. This project, involving a cultural anthropologist from the University of California at Davis and her graduate students, will study unionization and labor relations in the San Francisco hotel industry. The project will combine archival research on the historical development and structure of the local hotel industry, economic restructuring, and specifically the history of the local union organization. In depth interviews with key actors in this situation will focus on key events of union mobilization, the roles of women and immigrants and the impacts of economic and demographic restructuring. This case study will refine and build upon recent theories of political process of social movements, which have tended to slight developing local interests, activities and meanings in favor of national structures, constraints and opportunities. This research will provide an important in-depth case study that will advance our understanding of the basic causes relating migration, gender, economic restructuring and unionization.