John F. Kennedy-Institut/Abt. Politik Mayer/Grell Mi, 16-18 Uhr SS 2006 HS 32581 Raum 203 Beginn: 19.04.2006 Poor People’s Movements in an Era of Globalization and Migration Certain aspects of globalization (free trade agreements, raising levels of international competitivity, growing capital mobility, deregulation of national labor markets, dismanteling und privatization of public services) have created new patterns of inequity, income insecurity, exploitation and marginalization, both in developing and developed nations. While the United States remain the world’s leading economic and military power and the most important country of labor immigration, they allow alarming levels of ethnic discrimination, segregation, inequality and poverty admist spectacular growth and wealth. In response to neoliberal capitalist globalization, scholars have identified the proliferation of new types of movements, networks and grassroot social activism on local, regional, national and transnational levels bringing together a diverse group of actors and organizations committed to goals of economic and social justice as well as human and citizenship rights: Anti-Sweatshop and AntiCorperate Campaigns, Welfare Rights and Living Wage Campaigns, Transnational Feminist Networks, Social Movement and Community Unionism, Immigrant Worker Centers and various community and faith-based organizing networks on behalf of the poor. Course Objectives: In the first part of the course, we will familiarize ourselves with some of the larger theoretical debates associated with critical globalization and social movement studies and discuss how different authors conceptualize the current opportunities and challenges for poor people’s organizations. The second part will be devoted to an examination of the particular experiences and working and living conditions of marginalized, low-wage and immigrant communities in the United States. In the third part we will engage with selected case studies of contemporary poor people’s movements in North America, based on students’ interests. Course Schedule Week Date 1 19.04.06 2 26.04.06 Deadlines Topic Introduction to the course Discussion Lead Film: Bread and Roses (GB 2000, directed by Ken Loach, 110 min.,), set around the 1990s Justice for Janitors strike in Los Angeles Block I: Understanding Social Movements – Theoretical Reflections 3 3.5.06 4 10.5.06 Social Movements in the United States MM Poor People’s Movements BG Block II: Globalization`s Challenges for Labor and Grassroots Politics 1 5 17.5.06 Who Has a Right to Rights? Citizenship in an Era of Migration and Globalization 6 24.5.06 A Race to the Bottom? The Challenges of Globalization for Workers and the National Welfare State 7 31.5.06 Research proposal (3-5 pp.) “Thinking globally, acting locally.” Globalization, Transnationalism and Grassroots Politics Block III: Case Studies: Contemporary Poor People’s Movements in North America 8 ..7.6.06 The Revitalized American Labor Movement Guestspeaker: Valery Alzaga (Organizer SEIU) 9 14.6.06 Community-Labor Coalitions for Social and Economic Justice 10 21.6.06 Welfare Rights Movements (Homeless People, “Welfare Mothers”, Workfare Workers etc.) 11 28.6.06 Movements for Immigrant Rights 12 5.7.06 Crossborder/Transnational Movements and Networks I (“Anti-Globalization”Protests) 13 12.7.06 14 19.7.06 Crossborder/Transnational Movements and Networks II (Feminist Networks, Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns etc.) Final Evaluation Final research paper 30.9.! Course Format and Methods of Instruction This course is designed as a “research seminar” for students with a special interest in social movement theory and empirical research. It revolves around your willingness to engage in creative dialogue, participate actively in class discussion, and develop and present a research proposal/exposé (3-5 pages) in class for a longer term paper (Hausarbeit), which deals with a selected case study of contemporary poor people’s movement in North America. (The list in the course schedule should serve as an orientation but is not binding. Suggestions of students interested in other case studies are welcome.) In order to enhance the quality of learning and teaching, this class will make use of Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) as well as a Learning Management System (LMS), in this case Blackboard (BB). Further information on Prof. Margit Mayer’s teaching and methodology – including useful hints on how to to do a discussion lead and a peer review – is to be found on: http://userpage.fuberlin.de/~jfkpolhk/. 2 Course Requirements Readings: Required readings are set out for each week and, and students are expected to come to seminars prepared to discuss them. Additional texts are supplied for students’ consideration and further study. A course reader with the required readings will be provided and can be purchased at the copy shop Königin-Luise-Straße 39. All the listed texts will be available for download via Blackboard. Books related to the topic and also the course reader can be found in the JFK and OSI library (Handapparate). Credits/Grading: If you need credit for this class, the following contributions will need to be submitted: - discussion lead of one session (10%) - a research proposal/exposé, due May 31st (10%) - a peer review of a research proposal of one of your class mates (10%) - a term paper, due September 30th (50%). In addition, your participation in class will be graded as well (20%). Assigned Readings: Block I: Understanding Social Movement – Theoretical Reflections Social Movements in the United States (week 3) Required: Mayer, Margit 1995: Social Movements in the United States, in: Lyman, Stanford M. (ed.), Social Movements: Critiques, Concepts, Case Studies, New York University Press, New York Additional: Conway, Janet 2004: Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization (Chap. 2, Studying Social Movements), Fernwood Publishing, Halifax Bevington, Douglas; Dixon, Chris 2005: Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism, in: Social Movement Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 185208 Poor People’s Movements (week 4) Required: Piven, Frances Fox; Cloward, Richard A. 1977: Poor People´s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (Introduction and Chap. 1), Vintage Books, New York Additional: Piven, Frances Fox 2003: Retrospective Comments, in: American Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 707-710 Tarrow, Sidney 2003: Crossing the Ocen and Back Again with Piven and Cloward, in: in: American Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 711-714 Schram, Sanford F. 2003: The Praxis of Poor People’s Movements: Strategy and Theory in Dissensus Politics, in: American Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 715-720 Lefkowitz, Joel 2003: The Success of Poor People’s Movements: Empirical Tests and the More Elaborate Model, in: American Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 721-726 King, Joseph 2003: Poor People’s Movements 25 Years Later: Historical Context, Contemporary Issues, in: American Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 727-732 Block, Fred 2003: Organizing versus Mobilizing: Poor People’s Movements after 25 Years, in: American Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 733-735 Block II: Globalization`s Challenges for Labor and Grassroots Politics Who Has a Right to Rights? Citizenship in an Era of Migration and Globalization (week 5) 3 Required: Hill, Maher Kristen 2002: Who Has a Right to Rights? Citizenship’s Exclusions in an Age of Migration, in: Brysk, Alison (ed.), Globalization and Human Rights, University of California Press, Berkeley et al., pp. 19-43 Sassen, Saskia 2004: The Repositioning of Citizenship, in: Brysk, Alison; Shafir, Gershon (ed.), People Out of Place. Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap, Routledge, New York/London, pp. 191-208 Ong, Aihwa 2004: Latitudes of Citizenship. Membership, Meaning, and Multiculturalism, in: Brysk/Shafir (ed.), pp. 53-70 Additional: Laws, Glenda 1997: Globalization, Immigration, and Changing Social Relations in U.S. Cities, in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 551, pp. 89104 Lipschutz, Ronnie D. 2004: Constituting Political Community. Globalization, Citizenship, and Human Rights, in: Brysk/Shafir (ed.), pp. 29-51 Hill, Maher Kristen 2004: Globalized Social Reproduction. Women Migrants and the Citizenship Gap, in: Braysk/Shafir (ed.), pp. 131-151 Castaňeda, Alejandra 2004: Roads to Citizenship: Mexican Migrants in the United States, in: Latino Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 70-89 Gastélum, Yvonne Aimé 2005: Borderlands and the Claims for Justice, Working Paper 122, August 2005, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego A Race to the Bottom? The Challenges of Globalization for Workers and the National Welfare State (week 6) Required: Jessop. Bob 2000: Globalisation, Entrepreneurial Cities and the Social Economy, in: Hamel et. al. (ed.), Urban Movements in a Globalising World, Routledge, London/New York, pp. 81100 Yeates, Nicola 2002: Globalization and Social Policy. From Global Neoliberal Hegemony to Global Political Pluralism, in: Global Social Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 69-91 Aguirre, Adalberto; Reese, Ellen 2004: The Challenges of Globalization for Workers: Transnational and Transborder Issues, in: Social Justice, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 1-20 Additional: Teeple, Gary 2000: Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform. Into the Twenty-First Century (Chap. VIII u. IX, pp. 169-200) , Garamound Press, Aurora Piven, Frances Fox 2001: Globalization, American Politics, and Welfare Policy, in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 577, pp. 26-37 Theodore, Nik 2003: Political Economies of Day Labour: Regulation and Restructuring of Chicago`s Contingent Labour Markets, in: Urban Studies, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 1811-1828 Zamudio, Margaret 2004: Alienation and Resistance: New Possibilities for Working-Class Formation, in: Social Justice, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 60-76 Seidman, Gay W. 2004: Deflated Citizenship. Labor Rights in a Global Era, in: Brysk/Shafir (ed.), pp. 109-129 “Thinking globally, acting locally.” Globalization, Transnationalism and Grassroots Politics (week 7) Required: Kellner, Douglas 2002: Theorizing Globalization, in: Sociological Theory, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 285-305 Smith, Jackie 2004: Transnational Processes and Movements, in: Snow, David A.; Soule, Sarah A.; Kriesi, Hanspeter (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, Blackwell Publishing, Malden et al., 2004, pp. 311-335 4 Olesen, Thomas 2005: The Uses and Misuses of Globalization in the Study of Social Movements, in: Social Movement Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 49-63 Additional: Smith, Michael Peter 1994: Can You Imagine? Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics, in: Social Texts, No. 39, pp. 15-33 Clarke, Susan; Gaile, Gary L. 1997: Local Politics in a Global Era: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally, in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 551, May 1997, pp. 28-43 Evans, Peter 2000: Fighting Marginalization with Transnational Networks: CounterHegemonic Globalization, in: Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 230-241 Conway, Janet 2004: Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization (Chap. 3, Place. Grounding Globalization and Resistance), Fernwood Publishing, Halifax Chase-Dunn, Christopher; Gills, Barry 2005: Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World-System: Social Movements and Critical Global Studies, in: Appelbaum, Richard P.; Robinson, William I. (ed.), Critical Globalization Studies, Routledge, London/New York, pp. 45-54 Langman, Lauren 2005: From Virtual Public Spheres to Global Justice: A Critical Theory of Internetworked Social Movements, in: Sociological Theory, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 42-74 Block III: Contemporary Poor People’s Movements in North America The Revitalized American Labor Movement (week 8) Required: Fantasia, Rick; Stephan-Norris, Judith 2004: The Labor Movement in Motion, in: Snow et al. (ed.), pp. 555-575 Hurd, Richard; Milkman, Ruth; Turner, Lowell 2003: Reviving the American Labour Movement: Institutions and Mobilization, in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 99-117 Additional: Waldinger, Roger et al. 1998: Helots No More: A Case Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles, in: Bronfenbrenner, Kate et al. (ed.), Organizing to Win. New Research on Union Strategies, ILR Press, Ithaca, pp. 102-119 Clawson, Dan; Clawson, Mary Ann 1999: What Has Happened to the US Labor Movement? Union Decline and Renewal, in: Annual Rev. Sociol., Vol. 25, pp. 95-119 Voss, Kim; Sherman, Rachel 2000: Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement, in: The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 106, No. 2, pp. 303-349 Milkman, Ruth 2001: Immigrant Organizing and the New Labor Movement in Los Angeles, in: Critical Sociology, Vol. 26, No. 1/2, pp. 59-81 Cranford, Cynthia; Wilton, Robert D. 2002: Toward an Understanding of the Spatiality of Social Movements: Labor Organizing at a Private University in Los Angeles, in: Social Problems, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 374-394 Aguiar, Luis L.M. 2004: Resisting Neoliberalism in Vancouver: An Uphill Struggle for Cleaners, in: Social Justice, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 105-129 Chun, Jennifer Jihye 2005: Public Dramas and Politics of Justice: Comparison of Janitor’s Union Struggles in South Korea and the United States, in: Work and Occupation, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 486-503 Nissen, Bruce; Russo, Monica 2006: Building a Movement: Revatilizing Labor in Miami, in: WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 9, pp. 123-139 Community-Labor Coalitions for Social and Economic Justice (week 9) Required: McCarthy, John D.; Walker, Edward T. 2004: Alternative Organizational Repertoires of Poor People’s Social Movement Organizations, in: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Supplement to Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 97S-119S 5 Fine, Janice 2005: Community Unions and the Revival of the American Labor Movement, in: Politics & Society, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 153-199 Additional: Merrifield, Andy 2000: The Urbanization of Labor. Living-Wage Activism in the American City, in: Social Text, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 31-54 Pastor, Manuel Jr 2001: Common Ground at Ground Zero? The New Economy and the New Organizing in Los Angeles, in: Antipode, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 260-289 Lawless, Jennifer; Fox, Richard L. 2001: Political Participation of the Urban Poor, in: Social Problems, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 362-385 Minkoff, Debra 2002: The Emergence of Hybrid Organizational Forms: Combining IdentityBased Service Provision and Political Action, in: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 377-401 Barron, David J. 2003: The Community Economic Development Movement: Law, Business, and the New Social Policy, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3 Nicholls, Walter J.; Beaumont, Justin R. 2004: The Urbanisation of Justice Movements? Possibilities and Constraints for the City as a Space of Contentious Struggle, in: Space and Polity, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 119-135 Nissen, Bruce 2004: The Effectiveness and Limits of Labor-Community Coalitions: Evidence from South Florida, in: Labor Studies Journal, Spring 2004, pp. 67-89 Welfare Rights Movements (week 10) Required: Reese, Ellen; Newcombe, Garnett 2003: Income Rights, Mothers’ Rights, or Workers’ Rights? Collective Action Frames, Organizational Ideologies, and the American Welfare Rights Movement, in: Social Problems, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 294-318 Baptist, Willie; Bricker-Jenkins, Mary 2001: A View from the Bottom: Poor People and Their Allies Respond to Welfare Reform, in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 577, pp. 144-156 Additional: History: Piven/Cloward 1977: The Welfare Rights Movement (Chap. 5 of Poor People’s Movements, pp. 264-361) Abramovitz, Mimi 2001: Learning from the History of Poor and Working-Class Women’s Activism, in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 2001, pp. 118-130 Nadasen, Premilla 2002: Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights, in: Feminist Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 271301 In Response to Welfare Reforms in the 1990s: Boyer, Kate 2006: Reform and Resistance: A Consideration of Space, Scale and Strategy in Legal Challenges to Welfare Reform, in: Antipode, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 22-40 Simmons, Louise 2002: Unions and Welfare Reform: Labor’s Stake in the Ongoing Struggle over the Welfare State, in: Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 65-83 Dulchin, Benjamin; Kasmir, Sharryn 2004: Organizing and Identity in the New York City Workfare Program, in: Regional Labor Review, Fall 2004 Reese, Ellen; Giedraitis; Vega, Eric 2003: Puplic Policy, Threats, and Popular Mobilization: Campaigns Against Welfare Privatization, Paper prepared for the 2003 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta, Georgia East, Jean F. 2000: Empowerment Through Welfare-Rights Organizing: A Feminist Perspective, in: AFFILIA, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 311-328 Finn, Janet L.; Castellanos, Raquel; McOmber, Toni; Kahan, Kate 2000: Working for Equality and Economic Liberation: Advocacy and Education for Welfare Reform, in: AFFILIA, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 294-310 6 Homeless People Snow, David A.; Soule, Sarah A.; Cres, Daniel M. 2005: Identifying Precipitants of Homeless Protest Across 17 U.S. Cities, 1980-1990, in: Social Forces, Vol. 83, No. 3, pp. 1183-1210 Wagner, David; Cohen, Marcia B. 1991: The Power of the People: Homeless Protesters in the Aftermath of Social Movement Participation, in: Social Problems, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 543-561 Movements for Immigrant Rights (week 11) Required: Meyerson, Harold 1999: Liberalism with a New Accent: Immigrants Are Helping to Create a Dynamic, Globally Focused Movement, in: The Nation, Vol. 269, No. 11, pp 15 Choy, Rosita 2004: Immigrant Rights: Translating Grassroots Organizing into Policy Change, in: Peacework, Vol. 31, No. 347, pp. 21-29 Pastor, Manuel; Alva, Susan 2004: Guest Workers and the New Transnationalism: Possibilities and Realities in an Age of Repression, in: Social Justice, Vol. 31, No. 1-2, pp. 92112 Additional: Weber, Clair M. 2001: Latino Street Vendors in Los Angeles. Heterogeneous Alliances, Community-Based Activism, and the State, in: López- Garza, Marta; Diaz, David R. (ed.), Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy, Stanford University Press, Stanford, pp. 217-240 Jonas, Susanne; Tactaquin, Catherine 2004: Latino Immigrant Rights in the Shadow of the National Security State: Responses to Domestic Preemptive Strikes, in: Social Justice, Vol. 31, No 1-2, pp. 67-91 Johnson, Kevin R. 2004: Law and politics in post-modern California. Coalition or conflict between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latina/os?, in: Ethnicities, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 381-401 Reese, Ellen 2005: Policy Threats and Social Movement Coalitions: California´s Campaign to Restore Legal Immigrants’ Rights to Welfare, in: Meyer, David S.; Jenness, Valerie; Ingram, Helen (ed.), Routing the Opposition. Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis/London, pp. 259-287 Fujiwara, Lynn H. 2005: Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights: The Reframing of Immigrant Entitlement and Welfare, in: Social Problems, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 79-101 Crossborder/Transnational Movements and Networks I (week 12) “Anti-Globalization” Protests Required: Ayres, Jeffrey M. 2004: Framing Collective Action Against Neoliberalism: The Case of the “Anti-Globalization” Movement, in: Journal of World-System Research, X, I, Winter 2004, pp. 11-34 Buttel, Frederick H.; Gould, Kenneth, A. 2004: Global Social Movement(s) at the Crossroads: Some Observations on the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement, in: Journal of World-System Research, X, I, Winter 2004, pp. 37-66 Additional: Rucht, Dieter 2001: Social Movements Challenging Neo-liberal Globalization, in: Liberatore/Christoforides (ed.), Global Trade and Globalising Society, Brussels, pp. 67-74 Arditi, Benjamin 2004: From Globalism to Globalization: The Politics of Resistance, in: New Political Science, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 5-22 Smith, Jackie 2004: Exploring Connections Between Global Integration and Political Mobilization, in: Journal of World-System Research, X, I, Winter 2004, pp. 255-285 Adler, Glenn; Mittelman, James H. 2004: Reconstituting ‚Common-sense’ Knowledge: Representations of Globalization Protests, in: International Relations, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 189211 Ashman, Sam 2004: Resistance to Neoliberal Globalisation: A case of ‘Militant Particularism’?, in: Politics, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 142-153 7 Fisher, Dana R.; Stanley, Kevin; Berman, David; Neff, Gina 2005: How Do Organizations Matter? Mobilization and Support for Participants at Five Globalizations Protests, in: Social Problems, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 102-121 Crossborder/Transnational Movements and Networks II (week 13) Required: Drainville, André 2004: Contesting Globalization. Space and Place in the World Economy (Chap. 3, pp. 71-103), Routledge, London/New York Pollack, Aaron 2003: Cross-Border, Cross-Movement Alliances in the Late 1990s, in: Hamel, Pierre; Lustiger-Thaler, Hanri; Pieterse, Jan Nederveen; Roseneil, Sasha (ed.), Globalization and Social Movements, Palgrave MacMillan, New York et al., pp. 183-205 Additional: Armbruster-Sandoval 1999: Globalization and the Cross-Border Labor Organizing: The Guatemalan Maquiladora Industry and Philipps Van Heusen Workers’ Movement, in: Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 108-128 Stillerman, Joel 2003: Transnational Activist Networks and the Emergence of Labor Internationalism in the NAFTA Countries, in: Social Science History, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 5776011 Bandy, Joe 2004: Paradoxes of Transnational Civil Societies under Neoliberalism: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, in: Social Problems, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 410-431 Kay, Tamara 2005: Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance: The Impact of NAFTA on Transnational Labor Relationships in North America, in: AJS, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 715-756 Anti-Sweatshops Campaigns Pangalangan, Raul C. 2002: Sweatshops and International Labor Standards. Globalizing Markets, Localizing Norms, in: Brysk, A. (ed.), pp. 98-112 Ross, Robert J.S. 2004: From Antisweatshop to Global Justice to Antiwar: How the New Left is the Same and Different from the Old New Left, in: Journal of World-System Research, X, I, Winter 2004, pp. 287-319 Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph 2005: Workers of the World Unite? The Contemporary AntiSweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Americas, in: Work and Occupation, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 464-485 Appelbaum, Richard P. 2005: Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing Labor Standards, in: Appelbaum/Robinson (ed.), pp. 369-378 Feminist Networks Bickham Mendez, Jennifer; Wolf, Diane L. 2001: Where Feminist Theory Meets Feminist Practice: Border-crossing in a Transnational Academic Feminist Organzation, in: Organization, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 723-750 Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya 2005: Transnational Feminism and Globalization: Bringing Third World Women’s Voices from the Margin to Center, in: Appelbaum/Robinson (ed.), pp. 333347 Moghadam, Valentine M. 2005: Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks (or How Neoliberalism and Fundamentalism Riled the World’s Women), in: Applebaum/Robinson (ed.), pp. 349-358 8