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A Critical Industrial Relations Approach to Understanding Contemporary Worker Uprising

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Consistent with our calls for critical approaches to traditional Industrial Relations questions, we argue that it is important to consider whether the “major upsurge in union organizing” is more accurately… Click to show full abstract

Consistent with our calls for critical approaches to traditional Industrial Relations questions, we argue that it is important to consider whether the “major upsurge in union organizing” is more accurately framed as a continuation of long-running democracy fights against systemic inequity and injustice. Thus, we bring focus to “whole worker” organizing, as well as the structural limitations of our labor laws and institutions, to illuminate counter-narratives to the way we tell stories about contemporary worker organizing.

Keywords: relations approach; worker; contemporary worker; industrial relations; approach understanding; critical industrial

Journal Title: Work and Occupations
Year Published: 2023

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