Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maintaining Autonomy and Social Movement Activity

SES：1002973 PI：John Markoff汉堡大学Co-PI：Jane M.本项目分析了伊莫卡莱工人联盟（CIW），一个非暴力的，农场工人组织，决心改善生活和劳动条件，在伊莫卡莱，佛罗里达州，及其联盟组织，其中包括学生农场工人联盟（SFA），西南佛罗里达宗教间行动（IA）和公平食品联盟（AFF），共同努力，同时保持CIW？的自主性。通过使用档案材料，民族志研究的受害者（CIW）和联盟（SFA，IA和AFF）的组织，和采访工作人员，前工作人员和这些组织的成员，这个项目旨在了解社会运动是如何能够吸引和纳入个人和组织联盟的支持，但保持自主权，避免增选运动？的目标，组织风格和集体行动。 四个问题指导这个项目：1）CIW如何吸引盟友？2)CIW如何将这些盟友融入到每一场战役和更广泛的运动中？3)CIW在多大程度上保留了对该运动的自主权和控制权？组织的目标、组织风格和集体行动？（4）在这样做的情况下，这种自主性是如何实现的，又是如何保持的？ 更广泛的影响：该项目的更广泛影响是，它说明了缺乏资源（如加入工会和稳定就业的权利）的不同种族和语言背景的临时工人如何能够与盟友有效合作，以提高工资，改善工作条件和公司政策变化。

SES: 1002973PI: John MarkoffUniversity of PittsburghCo-PI: Jane M. WalshUniversity of PittsburghThis project analyzes how the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a nonviolent, farmworker organization determined to improve living and labor conditions in Immokalee, FL, and its allied organizations, which include the Student Farmworker Alliance (SFA), Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida (IA) and the Alliance for Fair Food (AFF), work together while preserving the CIW?s autonomy. Through the use of archival materials, ethnographic research on both the aggrieved (CIW) and allied (SFA, IA and AFF) organizations, and interviews with staff, former staff and members of these organizations, this project seeks to understand how a social movement is able to attract and incorporate individual and organizational allied support yet maintain autonomy and avoid co-optation of the movement?s goals, organizational style, and collective actions. Four questions guide this project: 1) how does the CIW attract allies? 2) how does the CIW incorporate these allies into each campaign and into the broader movement? 3) to what extent has the CIW retained autonomy and control of the movement?s goals, organizational style, and collective actions? and 4) to the extent that it does so, how was this autonomy achieved and how is it maintained? BROADER IMPACTS: The broader impact of this project is that it speaks to how transient workers with different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds who lack resources (such as the right to unionize and steady employment) have been able to work effectively with allies toward higher wages, improved working conditions and corporate policy changes.