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...

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Publicado en:	Social Justice Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 79 - 103
Autor principal:	Camacho, Alicia Schmidt
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Social Justice 1999
Materias:	AFL-CIO Han Young de Mexico SA Offshore assembly industry Racial & ethnic attitudes Women labor union members Mexican-American Border Region Mexico
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Sumario:	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.