Labor Anticommunism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, 1920–49

Luff, Jennifer

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“…Meanwhile, in the United States and the United Kingdom, welfare provisions have tended to be more minimal and linked to means-testing. In these countries, labor and socialist movements never enjoyed the same level of success as in Northern European countries (Lipset, 1983; Luff, 2018). Governments have been dominated too by right and center parties, although social democratic and leftist parties in the United Kingdom have had more influence than in the United States.…”

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Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy

Yasih

2022

Critical Sociology

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The article examines the effects of the normalization of a new form of precarious work—tied to the gig economy and shaped by the imperatives of neoliberalism—in impeding the formation of solidarity that would enable workers to challenge structural issues that shape their precarity, although without entirely preventing collective organization. While the article focuses on the manifestation of the new precarity and workers’ responses in the app-based transport service in Indonesia, it seeks insights from the different experiences of other countries. It is argued here that the historical absence of the Standard Employment Relationship (SER), and the historically rooted ineffectiveness of labor and broader society movements aggravate problems in translating the precarity discourse into the organizational struggles of contemporary labor.

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Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy

Yasih

2022

Critical Sociology

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Introduction: Trade Union Environmentalists as Organic Intellectuals in the USA, the UK, and Spain

Räthzel

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Uzzell

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies

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Asian Lessons in the Cold War Classroom: Trade Union Networks and the Multidirectional Pedagogies of the Cold War in Asia

Leow¹

2019

Journal of Social History

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This paper invites us to move beyond an elite, “pedagogical” view of Third World diplomatic non-alignment, by examining trade unions as sites of “subaltern internationalism” in the early Cold War. Trade unions were targets of both communist and anticommunist pedagogical programs, spearheaded principally by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and the rival International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), both of which competed to teach Asians how to be good trade unionists. But despite their ideological designs, I argue that these internationalist structures of the “Cold War classroom” facilitated, instead, unexpected encounters and fraternal connections that were experienced, and are best seen, at the level of the personal. After offering an overview of these Cold War macrostructures, the paper moves to the microhistorical scale to highlight one such set of personal networks that coalesced around a single “trade union expert.” George L-P Weaver was an African-American trade unionist whose pedagogical work took him to Okinawa and Singapore in the 1950s but whose dialogical encounters with Asian trade unionists had transformative effects on his ideological convictions afterward, challenging, in particular, his views on the role of the People’s Republic of China in the Cold War and of the “communism” of Chinese overseas communities in Singapore. In all, this paper suggests that trade unions offer us a rich site in which to recover individual dynamics that challenge and complicate, from below, the binary logics of the Cold War in Asia.

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Labor Anticommunism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, 1920–49

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy

Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy

Introduction: Trade Union Environmentalists as Organic Intellectuals in the USA, the UK, and Spain

Asian Lessons in the Cold War Classroom: Trade Union Networks and the Multidirectional Pedagogies of the Cold War in Asia

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