Lisbon Part of my holiday reading has included Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy edited by Lowell Turner and Daniel B. Cornfield and published this year (2007) by ILR/Cornell University Press. The book was already worth my price of admission for introducing me to Sellers essay that included …
Month: December 2007
One Percent Solutions
Lisbon Theda Skopal is a professor at Harvard, who along with Robert Putnam (“Bowling Alone”), has deeply studied from various angles voluntary associations and what they say about American civic engagement. In one of her books she uses an interesting numerical benchmark to reckon with the issues of scale for voluntary associations operating on …
Community Organizing Density
Lisbon In looking at the demise of institutional labor in the United States and most of the world, we all frequently look at the issue of density, which is defined as the percentage of workers that are members of unions compared to the total level of employment (usually non-agricultural employment). Density is an extremely …