Bridging social movement and industrial relations theory: An analysis of worker organizing campaigns in the United States and China

Maite Tapia; Manfred Elfström; Denisse Roca-Servat

doi:10.1108/S0733-558X20180000056008

Bridging social movement and industrial relations theory: An analysis of worker organizing campaigns in the United States and China

Maite Tapia, Manfred Elfström, Denisse Roca-Servat

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Abstract

In this paper, we draw from our own empirical data on worker organizing and identify important concepts that bridge social movement (SM) and industrial relations (IR) theory. In a context of traditional union decline and a surge of alternative types of worker mobilization, we apply SM and IR concepts related to the mobilizing structures and culture to cases of labor organizing via worker centers and community–labor alliances in the United States and China. From an analytical perspective, we argue that the field of SMs and IR can both benefit from this type of cross-discipline theorization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Pages	173-206
Number of pages	34
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20180000056008
State	Published - 2018

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Name	Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Volume	56
ISSN (Print)	0733-558X

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Keywords

China
Industrial relations theory
Mobilizing culture
Mobilizing structure
Social movement theory
United States
Worker organizing

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Tapia, M., Elfström, M., & Roca-Servat, D. (2018). Bridging social movement and industrial relations theory: An analysis of worker organizing campaigns in the United States and China. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations (pp. 173-206). (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Vol. 56). Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20180000056008

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Tapia, M, Elfström, M & Roca-Servat, D 2018, Bridging social movement and industrial relations theory: An analysis of worker organizing campaigns in the United States and China. in Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 56, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., pp. 173-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20180000056008

Bridging social movement and industrial relations theory: An analysis of worker organizing campaigns in the United States and China. / Tapia, Maite; Elfström, Manfred; Roca-Servat, Denisse.
Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2018. p. 173-206 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Vol. 56).

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