Labour organizing in the new economy: Examples from the USA and beyond

Geographies of the New Economy: Critical Reflections

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 132-150

  Herod, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905890829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203003893     Document Type: Chapter

References (29)

1. Berman, L. L. (1998) 'In your face, in your space: Spatial strategies in organizing clerical workers at Yale', in A. Herod, ed, Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 203-224.
2. Bronfenbrenner, K. (1997) 'The effect of plant closings and the threat of plant closings on worker rights to organize', supplement to Plant Closings and Workers' Rights:A Report to the Council of Ministers by the Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation, Bernan Press: Lanham, MD
3. Bronfenbrenner, K. (2000) 'Uneasy terrain: The impact of capital mobility on workers, wages, and union organizing', submitted to the US Trade Deficit Review Commission (available at www.ustdrc.gov/research/bronfenbrenner.pdf).
4. Cobble, D. S. (1991) 'Organizing the postindustrial work force: Lessons from the history of waitress unionism', Industrial and Labor Relations Review 44, 419-436.
5. Cobble, D. S. (1996) 'The prospects for unionism in a service society', in C. L. Macdonald and C. Sirianni, eds, Working in the Service Society, Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 333-358.
6. Green, J. and Tilly, C. (1987) 'Service unionism: Directions for organizing', Labor Law Journal, August: 486-495.
7. Herod, A. (1991) 'Homework and the fragmentation of space: Challenges for the labor movement', Geoforum 22, 173-183.
8. Herod, A. (1997a) 'Back to the future in labor relations: From the New Deal to Newt's Deal', in L. Staeheli, J. Kodras, and C. Flint, eds, State Devolution in America: Implications for a Diverse Society, (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews No. 48) Sage:Thousand Oaks, CA 161-180.
9. Herod, A. (1997b) 'Labor as an agent of globalization and as a global agent', in K. Cox, ed., Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, Guilford: New York, 167-200.
10. Herod, A. (2000) 'Implications of Just-in-Time production for union strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers dispute', Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, 521-547. [Publisher's erratum for figures published Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2001) 91,200-202.]
11. Herod, A. (2002) 'Geographics of labour organizing in the New Economy'. Available at http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/neweconomy/papers/seminar3/herod.pdf
12. Herod, A. (2003) 'Workers, space, and labor geography', International Labor and Working-Class History, 64, 112-138.
13. Hoskins, T. (1996) Statement by Trevor Hoskins, US Vice-President for Public Relations, Bridgestone/Firestone. Quoted in "Cybermanif" sur le web, Le Monde, 18 August
14. Hyman, R. (1999) An Emerging Agenda for Trade Unions? Discussion paper DP/98/1999 published by the Labour and Society Programme, International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
15. Jayadev, R. (2000) 'New ruling could give labor a toehold in Silicon Valley', Jinn Magazine, Issue 6.2, October 2-October 16, 2000. (Available at www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.20/001010-new.html).
16. Johns, R. (1998) 'Bridging the gap between class and space: US worker solidarity with Guatemala', Economic Geography, 74, 252-271.
17. Johns, R. and Vural, L. (2000) 'Class, geography, and the consumerist turn: UNITE and the Stop Sweatshops Campaign', Environment and Planning A, 32, 1193-1213.
18. Lee, E. (1997) The Labour Movement and the Internet: The New Internationalism, Pluto Press: Chicago
19. MacDuffie, J. P. (1995) 'Workers' Roles in Lean Production:The Implications for Worker Representation', in S. Babson, ed, Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry, Detroit:Wayne State University, 54-69.
20. Merrifield, A. (2000) 'The urbanization of labor: Living-wage activism in the American city', Social Text 18, 31-54.
21. Quah, D. (1999) 'The weightless economy in economic development'. Working Paper, Department of Economics, London School of Economics.
22. Savage, L. (1998) 'Geographies of organizing:Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles', in A. Herod, ed, Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism, University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 225-252.
23. Shostak, A. B. (1999) Cyber Union: Empowering Labor through Computer Technology, M. E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY
24. SOREDI (2001) 'Where the Money is in Jackson and Josephine Counties'. Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development Inc., www.soredi.org/News.asp?NewsID=227 Statistical Abstract of the United States (various years) United States Census Bureau, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
25. Walsh, J. (2001) 'Organizing the low-wage service sector: Community and urban politics in the United States', unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia.
26. Waterman, P. (1993) 'Internationalism is dead! Long live global solidarity?', in J. Brecher, J. Brown Childs, and J. Cutler, eds, Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order, South End Press: Boston, 257-261.
27. Wial, H. (1993) 'The emerging organizational structure of unionism in low-wage services', Rutgers Law Review 45, 671-738.
28. Wial, H. (1994) 'New bargaining structures for new forms of business organization', in S. Friedman, R. W. Hurd, R. A. Oswald, and R. L. Seeber, eds, Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 303-313.
29. Wills, J. (2002) 'Bargaining for the space to organize in the global economy: a review of the Accor-IUF trade union rights agreement', Review of International Political Economy 9, 675-700.