With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts

Licht, Walter

doi:10.2307/1902207

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“…A local union's bargaining strength was directly related to the complete organization of the carpenters in its community. Unorganized skilled carpenters represented a serious threat to the union, an opportunity for contractors to staff their sites adequately with non‐union tradesmen’ (Erlich 1986: 18). Although historically, few unions ever achieved total control over the labour market, they did achieve very high levels of union membership, and their efforts to take wages out of competition were successful in many of the largest urban labour markets.…”

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A Marriage Made in Heaven? Mismatches and Misunderstandings between Worker Centres and Unions

Fine¹

2007

Brit J Industrial Rel

107

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Worker centres, community-based mediating institutions that provide support to low-wage workers in the United States, have grown from five in 1992 to 160 in 2007. With unions increasingly targeting low-wage immigrant workers employed in non-footloose industries for organizing drives, it would seem that worker centres and unions are a match made in heaven. On the ground, however, it has been more of a mismatch. This article examines the underlying sources of the mismatch embodied in the structures, ideologies and cultures of worker centres and unions. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2007.

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Section: Day Labourer Centresmentioning

confidence: 99%