“‘Worker Center’ Found to Be Labor Organization

In response to the growing absence of unions from the private sector, community-based organizations known as worker centers have emerged as a new front in protecting and organizing workers. Scholars generally argue that worker centers have converged on a model of combining service provision with organizing and advocacy, supported primarily by funding from foundations and government agencies. I draw on interviews conducted with worker center staff, a dataset compiled from their public materials, and secondary research to add to the existing literature and to argue that a clear categorization of worker centers can be derived by attention to their primary workplace strategies. First, worker centers can be meaningfully distinguished by whether they attempt to raise standards in specific industries versus responding to problems in individual workplaces. But they can also be distinguished based on the extent to which they view public policy or winning agreements with employers as the primary route to systemic improvements. These divergences in strategy echo Progressive-era debates about the role for the state in redressing workplace ills. Similar to that era, strategic differences among today’s worker centers are driven less by ideology and more by the distinct structural challenges facing workers in particular political and economic contexts.

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Right of Employer to Make Employment Conditional upon Employee Not Joining Labor Organization

The Yale Law Journal ◽

10.2307/783975 ◽

1907 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 196

Keyword(s):

Labor Organization

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Variability in the Classification of Radiographs Using the 1980 International Labor Organization Classification for Pneumoconioses

CHEST Journal ◽

10.1378/chest.114.6.1740 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 114 (6) ◽

pp. 1740-1748 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Laura S. Welch ◽

Katherine L. Hunting ◽

John Balmes ◽

Eddy A. Bresnitz ◽

Tee L. Guidotti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Labor Organization ◽

International Labor Organization ◽

International Labor

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Sectional Parties, Divided Business

Studies in American Political Development ◽

10.1017/s0898588x06000083 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 160-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Cathie Jo Martin

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Government Regulation ◽

National Association ◽

Organized Labor ◽

Policy Preferences ◽

Business Activity ◽

Labor Organization ◽

Organizational Life ◽

Policy Positions ◽

Dramatic Shift

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) led the corporate attack on labor organization and government regulation in the early twentieth century. Yet NAM's deep distrust of coordination, in fact, developed years into its organizational life: at its inception, NAM organizers sought mechanisms to coordinate economic and political business activity, and held policy positions that resembled those favored by contemporaneous European manufacturers. Thus, the organization's dramatic shift in policy preferences almost a decade later was something of a sea change: suddenly NAM became committed to laissez-faire liberalism—the antithesis of coordination—and became best-known for its commitment to fighting organized labor.

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International Labor Organization

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300019792 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 359-360 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

International Organizations ◽

Background Information ◽

Labor Organization ◽

International Labor Organization ◽

American States ◽

International Labor ◽

Social Council ◽

The United Nations ◽

June July

Report to the Economic and Social Council: The International Labor Organization submitted to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on, September 29, 1947 a report on its activities during the year 1947. This report, the first of a regular series which ILO had agreed to submit regularly (Article V paragraph 2(a) of the Agreement between the United Nations and the ILO), included background information and covered the period from the establishment of the United Nations to July 15, 1947. This report dealt with the decisions of five successive sessions of the International Labor Conference, i.e., those held in Philadelphia, May 1947, in Paris, October–November 1945, in Seattle, June 1946, in Montreal, September–October 1946, and in Geneva, June–July 1947. Future reports, it was announced, would cover only one year's work. The report was accompanied by a volume containing a series of appendices which included the text of the Constitution of ILO as amended by the 1946 Instrument of Amendment, the text of the Agreement between the United Nations and ILO, a list of the committees of ILO, a list of meetings convened by ILO as well as meetings of other international organizations at which ILO was represented during the period covered by the report, a list of and the texts of Conventions, Recommendations, and some of the Resolutions adopted by the International Labor Conference, resolutions adopted by the third Conference of American States Members of ILO, held in 1946, and the text of the agreement between ILO and FAO.

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