RT Article
T1 On the borders of solidarity: race and gender contradictions in the “New Voice” platform of the AFL-CIO
JF Social justice
VO 26
IS 3
SP 79
OP 102
A1 Schmidt Camacho, Alicia R.
LA English
YR 1999
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159832
AB Part of a special issue on collective identities, social problems, and movements. The writer examines trade-unionist counter-discourses that have emerged in opposition to current order of globalized capitalism. She presents a framework for understanding the types of labor and labor control used by globalized capitalism. She outlines the history of a recent effort to form cross-border solidarity between San Diego affiliates of the AFL-CIO and striking workers in the Han Young plant in Tijuana, Mexico. She maintains that this effort provides a case study of the contradictions inherent in the AFL-CIO's “New Voice” of solidarity in a globalized industrial capitalist system. She argues that the AFL-CIO's “New Voice” platform is unable to adequately break with its reification of gender and racial difference.
K1 Han Young de Mexico SA
K1 AFL-CIO
K1 Labor supply
K1 Capitalism
K1 Labor unions
K1 Offshore assembly industry
K1 Attitudes of ethnic groups
K1 Women labor union members