An Analysis of Labor Union Participation in U.S. Congressional Hearings

Albert, Kyle

doi:10.1111/socf.12038

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“…Interest organizations, labor unions, and experts represent 9.2%, 4.3%, and 3.2% of all nongovernmental witnesses, respectively. This lack of representation by issue groups and unions is a first data point that the composition of hearings tilts toward globalization advocates (Albert, 2013).…”

Section: Findings On Invitations and Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial Fragmentation over Trade: The Role of Variation in Global Engagement

Osgood

2017

International Studies Quarterly

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Global economic integration has dramatically changed the US economy in ways both positive and negative over the past decades. The creation of the World Trade Organization and China's accession, along with the passage of free trade agreements with 20 countries, represent key policy developments but also sites for political contestation. Yet in nearly every instance, the United States has actively embraced greater economic openness, only episodically resorting to temporary industry-specific protectionism. 1 These moves toward ever greater integration have created manifestly positive effects for America's consumers and competitive firms and industries. But the costs of globalization for some US workers, industries, and regions have been steep. 2 In the wake of the 2016 presidential election and

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Section: Findings On Invitations and Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial Fragmentation over Trade: The Role of Variation in Global Engagement

Osgood

2017

International Studies Quarterly

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“…These topics, such as "civil rights" or "environment," can be indicators of movement influence on Congress, and scholars have analyzed when social movement activity may lead to Congress holding more hearings on particular topics (Johnson, Agnone, and McCarthy 2010;King, Bentele, and Soule 2007), but these data do not show whether or which SMOs were consulted at those hearings. Others have collected data on when SMOs testify before Congress, but these data are limited to single movements (Albert 2013;Ganz and Soule 2019;Goss 2020) or shorter time periods (Grossmann 2012). Others have collected multimovement data but have focused on movement activity rather than state outcomes (Earl et al 2004;Minkoff 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our data draw heavily on existing lists of SMOs (Amenta et al 2009;Earl et al 2004;Gamson 1975;Goldstein 2008;Minkoff 1993;Southern Poverty Law Center 2022). Ours is not the first data describing SMOs before Congress (Albert 2013;Ganz and Soule 2019;Goss 2020;Grossmann 2012), but it is the most extensive, providing a broad comparative look at SMO representation across both organizations and movements over the entire twentieth century.…”

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A Seat at the Table: A New Data Set of Social Movement Organization Representation before Congress during the Twentieth Century

Seguin

Maher

Zhang

2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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The authors ask descriptive questions concerning the relationship between social movement organizations (SMOs) and the state. Which movement’s SMOs are consulted the most by the state? Do only a few “spokes-organizations” speak for the whole of movements? Has the state increasingly consulted SMOs over time? Do the movements consulted most by the state advise only a few state venues? The authors present and describe a new publicly available data set covering 2,593 SMOs testifying at any of the 87,249 public congressional hearings held during the twentieth century. Testimony is highly concentrated across movements, with just four movements giving 64 percent of the testimony before Congress. A very few “spokes-organizations” testify far more often than typical SMOs. The SMO congressional testimony diversified over the twentieth century from primarily “old” movements such as Labor to include “new” movements such as the Environmental movement. The movements that testified most often did so before a broader range of congressional committees.

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“…unions' organizational resources are also important predictors of union participation in Congressional hearings (Albert 2013).…”

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Worker Voice and Political Participation in Civil Society

Budd¹,

Lamare²

2021

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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An Analysis of Labor Union Participation in U.S. Congressional Hearings

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Industrial Fragmentation over Trade: The Role of Variation in Global Engagement

Industrial Fragmentation over Trade: The Role of Variation in Global Engagement

A Seat at the Table: A New Data Set of Social Movement Organization Representation before Congress during the Twentieth Century

Worker Voice and Political Participation in Civil Society

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