"Oh Mary, Don't You Weep": Progressive Religion in the Living Wage Movement

Snarr, C. Melissa

doi:10.1558/poth.v8i3.269

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“…This area has been the subject of work not only in the fields of history, sociology, and political science, but also increasingly political theory, theology, and religious ethics. Scholars such as Michael Sandel (1996), Romand Coles (2005), Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles (2008), Jeffrey Stout (2010), Melissa Snarr (2011), and Luke Bretherton (2015) have in differing ways sought to draw attention to community organizing, and specifically BBCO, as a form of democratic citizenship which provides an alternative to procedural liberalisms defined by an elitist, technocratic politics with little interest in the moral dimensions of public life. Drawing on traditions of civic republicanism, these theorists all seek to recover a democratic politics that welcomes not only contributions from religious discourses in deliberations about the common good, but also the forms of democratic life practiced in faith‐based community organizing.…”

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“…In his own critical engagement with recent CRE work along such lines, Jung Lee lifted up Jeffrey Stout's study of broad‐based community organizing (BBCO) in a range of religious communities as a compelling example of non‐elite ethical formation. While studies on community organizing in such disciplines as history (Betten et al 1990; Weisenfeld 1998; Chappell 2005; and Payne 2007), sociology (Wood 2002; Polletta 2004; and Swarts 2008), and political theory (Wolin 1990; Sabl 2002; and Coles 2005) are not exactly new, a focus on this subject has developed more recently in the fields of religious ethics and political theology (Marsh 2005 ; Hauerwas and Coles 2008; Stout 2010; Snarr 2011; and Bretherton 2015). Much of this work considers faith‐based community organizing to be a promising form of democratic citizenship, wherein theologically thick vocabularies and practices instill in religious communities a democratic ethos and desire to work alongside their neighbors for justice in their communities.…”

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Organizing Muslim Virtue: Community Organizing, Comparative Religious Ethics, and the South African Muslim Struggle Against Apartheid

Houston¹

2023

Journal of Religious Ethics

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While offering valuable comparative insights into models of the self and ethical formation across religious traditions, studies of virtue ethics have been critiqued for putting forward accounts which are elite‐focused. Some comparative ethicists have pointed to work in religious ethics and political theology on faith‐based community organizing as offering compelling case studies of non‐elite ethical formation. I seek to add to this literature by performing an analysis of the theories and practices of ethical formation in the South African Muslim anti‐apartheid grassroots organization known as the “Call of Islam.” The “Call of Islam” emphasized a liberation‐oriented praxis and active solidarity with non‐Muslim organizations for the purposes of protesting apartheid and employed a range of social practices including study circles (halaqat) and political funeral processions to prepare and equip its members for such work. As such, it not only sheds light on non‐elite ethical formation, but in its cultivation of the habits and dispositions of democratic solidarity, it also serves as an Islamic example of broad‐based community organizing.

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Organizing Muslim Virtue: Community Organizing, Comparative Religious Ethics, and the South African Muslim Struggle Against Apartheid

Houston¹

2023

Journal of Religious Ethics

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“…Seen worldwide, unions in the public sector are some of the largest and most influential, especially when it comes to enabling new, more progressive labour laws (on this in the USA see McCann 1994;Snarr 2011). More than other trade unions, public service unions are likely to engage in public policy issues relating to the welfare state and universal social justice (Carpenter 2000).…”

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Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu

Werbner

2018

Review of African Political Economy

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The article considers the historiography of labour and class studies in sub-Saharan Africa in relation to the contemporary ‘cultural turn’ in sociological studies of class. It identifies three phases: from the 1960s, a highly empiricist Marxist approach which drew on Fanon’s notion of an aristocracy of labour; from the 1980s, a shift to a stress on culture, agency and identity, following E. P. Thompson; the final move has focused on the African middle classes, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of consumption. Research on a public sector manual workers’ union in Botswana exemplifies, the author argues, the Thompsonian approach.

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“…Warren (), Snarr (), Jamoul and Wills () and Wills et al . (2009b) contrast the progressive engagement of faith‐based groups by Citizens UK with the standard co‐option of these groups by the state.…”

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Organising migrant workers: the living wage campaign at the University of East London

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2015

Industrial Relations Journal

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This critical case study looks at the campaign led by Citizens UK and Unison to get the University of East London (UEL) to sign up to the London living wage (LLW). UEL agreed to pay the LLW after a brief campaign in November 2010 and it was subsequently implemented in August 2011. The study charts the course of the campaign and draws on mobilisation theory and new primary research to account for its success. What our findings suggest is that community organisers and union activists were able to organise and mobilise a largely apolitical group of migrant workers. This, we suggest, can be explained by the successful mobilisation of the community and augurs well for future broad‐based campaigns.

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"Oh Mary, Don't You Weep": Progressive Religion in the Living Wage Movement

Cited by 5 publications

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Organizing Muslim Virtue: Community Organizing, Comparative Religious Ethics, and the South African Muslim Struggle Against Apartheid

Organizing Muslim Virtue: Community Organizing, Comparative Religious Ethics, and the South African Muslim Struggle Against Apartheid

Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu

Organising migrant workers: the living wage campaign at the University of East London

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