Resources for Scholars Who Support Workers' Rights
The following resources may be useful to scholars who
wish to do research or writing in support of workers' freedom to unionize and
bargain collectively:
- Organizing Research Network: multi-disciplinary research network in
formation. For further information, contact Fred Feinstein,
ff31@umail.umd.edu, or Larry Mishel,
lmishel@epinet.org.
- University of California Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE):
awards research grants to California-based scholars and their non-California
research partners. See ILE's web site, http://www.ucop.edu/ile/, for further
information.
- AFL-CIO/ Michigan State University Conference: October 2002 research
conference on workers' rights, especially the freedom to unionize and bargain
collectively. See the conference web site,
http://www.lir.msu.edu/event/worker-rights/,
for more information.
- Industrial Relations Research
Association (IRRA): has a Labor Unions/Labor Research interest section. For
further information, contact section conveners Jill Kriesky,
ikriesky@wvu.edu, or Gordon Pavy,
gpavy@aflcio.org.
- American Sociological Association: has a newly formed
Labor and Labor
Movements section.
- Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA): an
organization of scholars, union members, students and citizens promoting a
wider understanding of the history of working class people, their communities,
and their organizations in the United States. See LAWCHA's web site, http://www.lawcha.org/, for more
information.
- United Association for Labor Education (UALE): national organization
of university and union-based labor educators; publishes the Labor Studies
Journal. For more information, see UALE's web site,
http://www.uale.org.
- Society for the Promotion of Human
Rights in Employment (SPHRE) for information.
- Human Rights Watch: last year, Human Rights Watch, one of the
world's leading human rights organizations, published a major report on the
status of workers' freedom to unionize, bargain collectively and strike in the
United States. The report, entitled UNFAIR ADVANTAGE: Workers' Freedom of
Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards,
is available on-line at www.hrw.org/reports/2000/uslabor/.