On the borders of solidarity: race and gender contradictions in the “New Voice” platform of the AFL-CIO

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 g...

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Main Author: Schmidt Camacho, Alicia R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1999
In: Social justice
Year: 1999, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 79-102
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Han Young de Mexico SA
AFL-CIO
Labor supply
Capitalism
Labor unions
Offshore assembly industry
Attitudes of ethnic groups
Women labor union members
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2327-641X