Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement1
- Kim Voss, Rachel Sherman
- SociologyAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 September 2000
This article addresses the question of how social movement organizations are able to break out of bureaucratic conservatism. In‐depth interviews with union organizers and other data are used to…
Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
- R. Fantasia, Kim Voss
- Economics, History
- 2004
List of Illustrations Preface 1. Why Labor Matters: The Underside of the "American Model" 2. An Exceptionally Hostile Terrain 3. Bureaucrats, "Strongmen," Militants, and Intellectuals 4. Practices…
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.
- C. Fischer, M. Hout, M. Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, Kim Voss
- Economics
- 22 January 1997
As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America.…
Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America
- Kim Voss, I. Bloemraad
- Political Science
- 7 June 2011
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments What Happened? The Historically Unprecedented Mobilizations of Spring 2006 1. The Protests of 2006: What Were They, How Do We Understand Them, Where Do…
Rights, Economics, or Family?: Frame Resonance, Political Ideology, and the Immigrant Rights Movement
- Irene Bloemraad, Fabiana Silva, Kim Voss
- Political Science
- 20 May 2016
Although social movement scholars in the United States have long ignored activism over immigration, this movement raises important theoretical and empirical questions, especially given many…
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.
- Robin Stryker, Kim Voss
- History
- 1 July 1995
The local in the global: rethinking social movements in the new millennium
- Kim Voss, Michelle Williams
- Political Science, Sociology
- 20 April 2009
In this article we discuss the failure of social movement theories to adequately understand and theorize locally based, grassroots social movements like the landless workers movement in Brazil,…
Democratic dilemmas: union democracy and union renewal
- Kim Voss
- Political Science
- 1 August 2010
This article examines the academic debate over union democracy and compares it with recent research on union renewal in the United States. The juxtaposition reveals that revitalization in US unions…
Rebuilding labor : organizing and organizers in the new union movement
- R. Milkman, Kim Voss
- Political Science
- 2004
"In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power, unions must fundamentally alter their internal organizational practices. This means creating…
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