RT Article
T1 Alienation and Resistance: New Possibilities for Working-Class Formation
JF Social justice
VO 31
IS 3
SP 60
OP 76
A1 Zamudio, Margaret
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747158143
AB Part of a special issue on social justice for workers in the global economy. The processes that shape working-class formation in the U.S. service sector are investigated with an analysis of data from employers, workers, and union organizers in the hotel industry in Los Angeles, California, which is dominated by immigrant Latina/o labor. The roles that globalization, the transition from a goods-producing to a service-producing society, and the commodification of workers' identity rather than just their labor have played in creating new conditions for resistance are highlighted. It is suggested that, in an industry where race, ethnicity, and citizenship are particularly pertinent, alienation, rather than exploitation, is the better predictor of working-class resistance.
K1 Corporate reorganizations
K1 Blue collar workers
K1 Globalization
K1 Economic Development
K1 Working Class
K1 Labor
K1 Economics
K1 Exploitation
K1 Labor unions -- United States
K1 Labor unions
K1 Hotels -- Employees
K1 Class politics
K1 Working class -- United States