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...Wendy Sarvasy Abstract This memo introduces students and faculty to the Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA), the 2023 recipient of the Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award given by the Critical Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. Founded in 2009, FCWA...

...Belden Fields * I want to express my appreciation to the workers living in the SONACOTRA residence in Chelles, to Professor Anne Thieulle of the University of Paris (VII), and to Jane Ellen Mohraz for their assistance in researching and writing this work. © 1982 Caucus for a New...

...Deborah L. Little Merike Blofield , Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America , University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2012 , 200 pp. © 2013 Deborah L. Little 2013 New Political Science, 2013 Vol. 35,~o. 3,522-537 Book...

... to the global South, service and professional workers and their unions found it reassuring that that their jobs could not sent abroad. In the last decade, importing service workers from the global South is a dominant trend. As the United States is closing doors to traditional forms of immigration, it promotes...

...–2018, a period when Canada imposed stringent language and education requirements on migrant workers seeking permanent residence. By examining how political rhetoric frames migrant caregivers as not earning “enough” to migrate with their families, we illustrate how lawmakers promote tolerance...

...Barbara Franz Abstract This article argues that if the proponents of immigration reform have it their way, the proposed guest worker program will transform American citizenship from an institution based on civic membership to one based on residence rights and socio-economic status. American...

... to the labor demands of large-scale agricultural interests. © 1998 Caucus for a New Political Science 1998 New Political Science, Volume 20, Number 4, 1998 441 The 1933 Los Angeles County Farm Workers Strike Gilbert G. Gonzalez University of California, Irvine Abstract Although 11lany historical accounts...

.... It examines the role of Latino immigrants as operatives in the industry, and the conditions under which they must work. The fundamental problem lies in the lack of political power of these workers, who must labor under an apartheid-like system that denies them basic civil rights. Even recent signs of growing...

...Samantha Majic Abstract This article considers the following question: given sex workers’ barriers to participation, how do they engage in political life, if at all? To answer this, I draw on semistructured open-ended interviews with forty adults who have supported themselves with sex work...

...Stacy Clifford Simplican Abstract In Harris v. Quinn (2014), the United States Supreme Court used disability rights rhetoric of independence and control to argue that disabled people—not the State—are the real employers of in-home care workers. Consequently, the State cannot force care workers...

...Judson Abraham Abstract As environmental legislation threatens energy-related jobs, unions may seek to assure just transitions for their workers. Just transitions are programs to guarantee decent, well-paying new jobs or early retirement for workers displaced by environmental regulations. Militant...

... competition increases the economic insecurity of American workers and gives political support to neoliberal economic ideologies, and in turn allows for the ideological construction of vulnerable foreign workers abroad and “rightless” workers at home. * I would like to thank Shayna Plaut...

... and South Africa during this period. Despite apparent differences between these cases, both labor movements succeeded in transforming narrowly circumscribed workplace rights into broader demands for political and economic change. Migrant or non-citizen workers played a key role in both cases, and workers...

..., guaranteeing workers rights of association and expression they had been denied historically through the use of court injunctions, criminal conspiracy prosecutions, and extra-legal violence. Supreme Court decisions of the late 1930s, often arising out of labor conflicts, also significantly expanded rights...

...–urban migrants far more substantially than it did workers in the formal (mostly state-owned) urban sector. While this situation presents numerous challenges (for the central state, a crisis of legitimacy; for the local state, a crisis of managing social unrest as well as providing welfare...

...S. Laurel Weldon; Harry Targ Abstract This paper analyzes the rhetoric and policy goals of the living wage movement. While the rhetoric focuses on workers in the context of their families, the wage levels demanded by activists and mandated by laws are almost never adequate to support families...

... as families and grants them benefits, while forcing other households to live as legal strangers. Individuals may form familial relationships, but the privileges and status of family are controlled by state actors and institutions. When state actors separate low-wage immigrant worker families, the state’s...

... gloomy picture, casino workers in Las Vegas have provided a striking counter-example. Since 1989, over 30,000 of them have joined the Culinary Union (HERE Local 226), more than doubling the union’s membership and bringing union density on the famous Las Vegas Strip to 90%. What accounts for their success...

... eager to expand on growing support from traditionally Democratic, non-college-educated workers attracted by Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, and those who wish to restore the party’s earlier focus on so-called fiscal conservatism—probusiness, free market–oriented policies. Similarly, since 2020, figures...

... to neoliberal globalization in Latin America over the past two decades, as well as how charismatic leaders of the left have captured state power. Through an analysis of the Zapatista and Appista Movements in Mexico, the Piqueteros and workers’ movements in Argentina, the Chavistas in Venezuela, and the Aymara...