Building a Movement and Constructing Community: Photography, the United Farm Workers and El Malcriado The United Farm Workers’ widely circulated publication El Malcriado was highly influential in shaping Chicano movement print culture and the way it visualized emerging conceptions of identity, community, and politics. This essay examines use of photography within El Malcriado, the various […]
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David Bacon
For an Immigration Policy Based on Human Rights David Bacon builds on his grass-roots immigrant advocacy experience to counter the attack on the rights of undocumented immigrants. The author addresses the thorny issue of financial costs versus contributions made by undocumented immigrants to the system, exposing who pays and who benefits, and the ways in […]
Kim Geron
The Local/Global Context of the Los Angeles Hotel-Tourism Industry Kim Geron describes institutional alliances taking place in the transnational landscape. The author puts forth the notion of social movement unionism as a response by labor unions and community groups to the internationalization of their economic institutions. social movement unionism, hotel-tourism industry, Los Angeles Citation: Social […]
María de la Luz Arriaga Lemus
The Mexican Teachers’ Movement: 30 Years of Struggle for Union Democracy and the Defense of Public Education Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect, the region’s education sector has been the site of a great number of mass protests. This article analyzes social movements in the education sector in the context […]
Mark Jay & Virginia Leavell
Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion This article analyzes the conditions, and political significance, of Detroit’s Great Rebellion in 1967. We first discuss the pre- and postwar political economy in Detroit. Second, we analyze the state of technology and automation at the plants and its relationship to the class struggle. Third, we address the uniquely […]
Migrant Labor and Contested Public Space, Vol. 35: 4, 2008
Gregory Shank and Adalberto Aguirre, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the impact of immigrant labor, particularly from Mexico, at the local level. It remains a polarizing issue that the Obama administration may not address during his first term, disappointing Latino leaders and immigration advocates. Meanwhile, lacking a pathway to citizenship and union protections, […]
Peter Beilharz
Australian Laborism, Social Democracy, and Social Justice into the 1990s From the outside, the experience of the Australian labor movement has always seemed different. Since its inception, Australian labor has been happy to promote the image of its own exceptionalism. From its earlier strengths, through its tepid, near-British postwar period, and the real excitement — […]
Privatization and Resistance: Contesting Neoliberal Globalization, Vol. 33: 3, 2006
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Volker Eick, and Ellen Reese, eds. This issue of Social Justice explores the danger of neoliberal globalization regarding social issues such as the privatization of housing, economic welfare, security, and the delivery of goods and services. Contributions on economic welfare and municipal services discuss how neoliberalism in the global North and South […]
Social Justice for Workers in the Global Economy, Vol. 31: 3, 2004
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Ellen Reese, eds. What challenges do workers face in the global economy and how can they and their allies meet them? Essays in this special issue of Social Justice address aspects of this question through detailed case studies on the interface between global capitalism and neoliberalism as it affects workers in […]
Vol. 45-2/3
TABLE OF CONTENTS Histories of Abolition, Critiques of Security Brendan McQuade Rebranding Mass Incarceration: The Lippman Commission and Carceral Devolution in New York City Zhandarka Kurti & Jarrod Shanahan Reproducing Disorder: The Effects of Broken Windows Policing on Homeless People with Mental Illness in San Francisco Tony Sparks You Have the Right to Remain Violent: […]