Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Tattersall 2008


Tattersall, Amanda. 2008. "Coalitions and community unionism: Using the term community to explore effective union-community collaboration." Journal of Organizational Change Management 21, no. 4: 415-432.


  • definition of community unionism
    • community is used as a short-cut for describing community organization (417)
    • community describes a group of people with common interests or identities
    • community means a place
    • thus community unionism has all these bits, can be further named in three ways
      • strategy of coalition unionism: coalitions between unions and community groups
      • strategy of organizing workers on common identities (418)
      • place-based organizing strategies
  • two downsides of teh current coalition schlarship:
    • there is a tendency to describe practices rather than evaluate them (419)
    • too often choose case studies that exemplify good practices rather than conceptualizing key variables to better understand what causes coalition success
  • focuses mainly on coalitions between unions and community groups (i.e. preformed groups)

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