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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780801458453
035 _a(DE-B1597)478654
035 _a(OCoLC)979590575
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aPOL013000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aChun, Jennifer Jihye
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOrganizing at the Margins :
_bThe Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States /
_cJennifer Jihye Chun.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.) :
_b5 tables, 4 charts/graphs
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_t1. The Symbolic Leverage of Labor --
_t2. Employer and State Offensives against Unionized Workers --
_t3. Reconstructing the Marginalized Workforce --
_t4. Social Movement Legacies and Organizing the Marginalized --
_t5. What Is an "Employer"? Organizing Subcontracted University Janitors --
_t6. What Is a "Worker"? Organizing Independently Contracted Home Care Workers and Golf Caddies --
_t7. Dilemmas of Organizing Workers at the Margins --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion, labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service jobs. In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries: South Korea and the United States.Using comparative historical inquiry and in-depth case studies, she shows how labor movements in countries with different histories and structures of economic development, class formation, and cultural politics embark on similar trajectories of change. Chun shows that as the base of worker power shifts from those who hold high-paying, industrial jobs to the formerly "unorganizable," labor movements in both countries are employing new strategies and vocabularies to challenge the assault of neoliberal globalization on workers' rights and livelihoods.Deftly combining theory and ethnography, she argues that by cultivating alternative sources of "symbolic leverage" that root workers' demands in the collective morality of broad-based communities, as opposed to the narrow confines of workplace disputes, workers in the lowest tiers are transforming the power relations that sustain downgraded forms of work. Her case studies of janitors and personal service workers in the United States and South Korea offer a surprising comparison between converging labor movements in two very different countries as they refashion their relation to historically disadvantaged sectors of the workforce and expand the moral and material boundaries of union membership in a globalizing world.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aLabor movement
_xPolitical aspects
_zKorea (South).
650 0 _aLabor movement
_xPolitical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aAnthropology.
650 4 _aAsian Studies.
650 4 _aLabor History.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458453
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801458453
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