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Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial ebook Award and the Christopher Award, this very good exam of the lifetime of Martin Luther King, Jr. portrays a really genuine guy and his dream that formed America's background.

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Chapter 4 shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, peripherally employed immigrants and women can challenge the intensification of discrimination and exploitation associated with downgraded employment. Distinct social movement legacies play a crucial role in providing cultural and organizational repertoires with which to organize historically disadvantaged groups of workers. In the United States, 1960s social movements, such as the civil rights and early New Left movements, influenced subsequent efforts to revitalize local unions and shift the priorities of the organized labor movement.

An important component of “challenger” movements, as social movement scholars often put it, is the ability to draw upon signs, slogans, tactics, and moral vocabularies from previous struggles and adapt them for use in future battles, emphasizing the ability of less authorized forms of symbolic capital to reproduce themselves over time. The dynamic nature of workers’ symbolic capital is particularly vivid when looking at the legacy of the Knights of Labor, the Wobblies (International Workers of the World), 1930s Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unionism, and the 1960s civil rights movement in challenging discriminatory wages, working conditions, and union practices as well as broader structures of racism, sexism, and xenophobia (Cobble 2004; Dubofsky 2000; Gerteis 2007; MacLean 2006).

K. Lee 2007, 238). The contradiction between de jure and de facto labor rights also generates powerful forms of moral authority for discontent workers, as was the case under authoritarian state regimes in South Korea (see chapter 2). ” Unlike their opponents who rely on official state classifications to produce a recognizable source of authority, marginalized workers must cultivate sources of authority that circumvent existing rules and procedures, as well as the relations of power and inequality that underpin them.

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