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Author note: James M. McCormick (Editor), Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Contributor), Gideon Rachman (Contributor)
Publish 12 months note: First released August twenty eighth 1998
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]The new version of this major reader for classes in American international coverage bargains scholars an updated, hugely available creation to the extensive array of family components influencing U.S. policymakers. Editor James M. McCormick has conscientiously chosen dozen present insightful and occasionally arguable essays via a uncommon team of best experts— students, newshounds and public officials—including eleven new and seven up-to-date contributions.
In his creation, McCormick evaluates the demanding situations dealing with U.S. international coverage makers lately and assesses the Obama Administration's successes and screw ups in its efforts to pursue a brand new path in American overseas coverage. the amount is then divided into 3 significant components with a gap essay via the editor to put every one half in context after which a variety of essays that analyzes the subject in that half in additional aspect. half I, "The Societal Environment," includes a sequence of articles at the place of curiosity teams, the influence of army event, the impact of public opinion, and the function of elections and political events on overseas coverage. half II, "The Institutional Setting," examines how a number of political associations, corresponding to Congress, the presidency, and diverse bureaucracies (e.g., the nationwide protection Council, the intelligence group) form American overseas coverage. half III, "Decision makers and Their Policymaking Positions," presents numerous case analyses over a number of administrations to demonstrate how contributors and bureaucracies impact the international coverage choice making on the maximum degrees of presidency.
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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.