Workers And Politics

Author : Stephen Pimpare
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231551892

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Politics for Social Workers by Stephen Pimpare Pdf

The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers have firsthand knowledge of how public policy neglects or outright harms society’s most vulnerable, too few have training in the political processes that created these policies. This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. Helping readers develop sustainable strategies at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, this book is a hands-on manual to contemporary American politics, showing social workers and social work students how to engage in effective activism. Stephen Pimpare, a political scientist with extensive experience as a social work practitioner and instructor, offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system. He distills key research and insights from political science and related disciplines into a practical resource for social work students, instructors, and practitioners looking to deepen their policy knowledge and capacity to achieve change.

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520047400

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Roots of Rebellion by Victoria E. Bonnell Pdf

"Comprehensive history of workers' political attitudes and organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow during the final years of the tsarist era ... examines the workers' persistent efforts to combine collectively and to assert and defend their rights in the workplace and society at large. Focusing on trade unions ... analyzes the complex interaction among workers, employers, political parties, and the state, and the circumstances that drove many workers in a revolutionary direction"--back cover.

Author : Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190629892

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Politics at Work by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Pdf

Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's Politics at Work explains why mobilization of workers has become an appealing corporate political strategy in recent decades. The book also assesses the effect of employer mobilization on the political process more broadly, including its consequences for electoral contests, policy debates, and political representation. Hertel-Fernandez shows that while employer political recruitment has some benefits for American democracy-for instance, getting more workers to the polls-it also has troubling implications for our democratic system. Workers face considerable pressure to respond to their managers' political requests because of the economic power employers possess over workers. In spite of these worrisome patterns, Hertel-Fernandez found that corporate managers view the mobilization of their own workers as an important strategy for influencing politics. As he shows, companies consider mobilization of their workers to be even more effective at changing public policy than making campaign contributions or buying electoral ads. Hertel-Fernandez closes with an array of solutions that could protect workers from employer political coercion and could also win the support of majorities of Americans. By carefully examining a growing yet underappreciated political practice, Politics at Work contributes to our understanding of the changing workplace, as well as the increasing power of corporations in American politics. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between inequality, public policy, and American democracy.

Author : Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190635442

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Politics at Work by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez Pdf

Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's Politics at Work explains why mobilization of workers has become an appealing corporate political strategy in recent decades. The book also assesses the effect of employer mobilization on the political process more broadly, including its consequences for electoral contests, policy debates, and political representation. Hertel-Fernandez shows that while employer political recruitment has some benefits for American democracy-for instance, getting more workers to the polls-it also has troubling implications for our democratic system. Workers face considerable pressure to respond to their managers' political requests because of the economic power employers possess over workers. In spite of these worrisome patterns, Hertel-Fernandez found that corporate managers view the mobilization of their own workers as an important strategy for influencing politics. As he shows, companies consider mobilization of their workers to be even more effective at changing public policy than making campaign contributions or buying electoral ads. Hertel-Fernandez closes with an array of solutions that could protect workers from employer political coercion and could also win the support of majorities of Americans. By carefully examining a growing yet underappreciated political practice, Politics at Work contributes to our understanding of the changing workplace, as well as the increasing power of corporations in American politics. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between inequality, public policy, and American democracy.

Author : Stephen Crowley,David Ost
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742509990

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Workers After Workers' States by Stephen Crowley,David Ost Pdf

Why, given political freedom coupled with adverse economic change, has labour been so quiescent since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe? Through the use of case studies, this text explores the extent of these weaknesses and the relationship between labour and politcs in these countries.

Author : Evelyne Huber Stephens,Evelyne Huber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035956437

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The Politics of Workers' Participation by Evelyne Huber Stephens,Evelyne Huber Pdf

Monograph on political aspects and social implications of the Peruvian approach to workers participation - presents comparison of participation types in France, Germany, Federal Republic (codetermination), Sweden and Yugoslavia (workers self management), examines relations between labour policy, trade unions and profit sharing, and discusses government attitudes to increased trade unionization and strike activity in Peru. Bibliography pp. 269 to 275.

Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802080820

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The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925 by Craig Heron Pdf

A clear, concise portrait of one of the most dramatic moments in the history of working-class life and class relations generally in Canada - the upsurge of working-class protest at the end of the First World War.

Author : Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773635040

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Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2nd ed. by Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage Pdf

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for working-class people has taken on a greater sense of urgency. Understanding the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian labour movement at this important moment in history is the central concern of this second edition of Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. With new and revised essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection assesses the past, present and uncertain future of Canadian labour politics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together the traditional electoral-based aspects of labour politics with analyses of newer and rediscovered forms of working-class organization and social movement-influenced strategies, which have become increasingly important in the Canadian labour movement, this book seeks to take stock of these new forms of labour politics, understand their emergence and assess their potential impact on the future of labour in Canada.

Author : Asef Bayat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39076001164339

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Work, Politics, and Power by Asef Bayat Pdf

Author : Gabriel Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271047843

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Land, Protest, and Politics by Gabriel Ondetti Pdf

Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.

Author : Paul Marx
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137394873

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The Political Behaviour of Temporary Workers by Paul Marx Pdf

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Combining insights from psychology, political science and labour market research, this book offers new theories and evidence on the political repercussions of temporary jobs.

Author : Mark Pittaway
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822978121

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The Workers State by Mark Pittaway Pdf

"In 1956, Hungarian workers joined students on the streets to protest years of wage and benefit cuts enacted by the Communist regime. Although quickly suppressed by Soviet forces, the uprising led to changes in party leadership and conciliatory measures that would influence labor politics for the next thirty years. In The Workers' State, Mark Pittaway presents a groundbreaking study of the complexities of the Hungarian working class, its relationship to the Communist Party, and its major political role during the foundational period of socialism (1944-1958). Through case studies of three industrial centers--Újpest, Tatabánya, and Zala County--Pittaway analyzes the dynamics of gender, class, generation, skill level, and rural versus urban location, to reveal the embedded hierarchies within Hungarian labor. He further demonstrates how industries themselves, from oil and mining to armaments and textiles, possessed their own unique labor subcultures. From the outset, the socialist state won favor with many workers, as they had grown weary of the disparity and oppression of class systems under fascism. By the early 1950s, however, a gap between the aspirations of labor and the goals of the state began to widen. In the Stalinist drive toward industrialization, stepped up production measures, shortages of goods and housing, wage and benefit cuts, and suppression became widespread. Many histories of this period have focused on Communist terror tactics and the brutal suppression of a pliant population. In contrast, Pittaway's social chronicle sheds new light on working-class structures and the determination of labor to pursue its own interests and affect change in the face of oppression. It also offers new understandings of the role of labor and the importance of local histories in Eastern Europe under communism."--Project Muse.

Author : Elizabeth Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691192246

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Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson Pdf

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off-duty lives of workers, who can be fired for their political speech, recreational activities, diet, and almost anything else employers care to govern. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.

Author : Jean-Christian Vinel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812245240

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The Employee by Jean-Christian Vinel Pdf

The Employee examines how American businesses dominated and influenced labor law as they pushed for an ever-narrower definition of "employee" and maneuvered to exclude workers from the right to organize.

Author : Niven Postma
Publisher : KR Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1869228529

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If You Don't Do Politics, Politics Will Do You... by Niven Postma Pdf

Most people try to avoid office politics at all costs, seeing them as unpleasant, unfair, unethical and an unnecessary distraction from their 'real work'. If You Don't Do Politics, Politics Will Do You will open your eyes to the fundamentals you didn't know you need to know - the fundamentals no-one ever teaches you, including what office politics actually are and how being politically intelligent is the single biggest determinant of your personal and professional success. Drawing on her own experiences as an executive, together with insights from some of the leading business thinkers of our time, in this personal, practical and frank book, Niven Postma will show you it is possible to play politics without sacrificing your principles and teach you how to use politics to advance your career, benefit your team and build the organisation you are part of. "Niven Postma will help you to understand why workplace politics are inevitable and how you can navigate office politics in order to be both useful and successful." - Liz Wiseman, New York Times bestselling author of "Multipliers" and "Rookie Smarts"