Worker Organizing

Andreas Pekarek is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Rick Delbridge is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Cardiff Business School and Co-Convenor of the Centre for Innovation Policy Research, Cardiff University, UK.Markus Helfen is Professor of Strategy and Leadership in Non-Profit-Organisations and Trade Unions at the University of Labour, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.Gretchen Purser is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA.

• Chapter 1. Introduction – Tradition and Frontier: The Changing Landscape of Worker Organizing; Andreas Pekarek, Rick Delbridge, Markus Helfen, and Gretchen PurserChapter 2. The Institution’s the Limit? Exploring the Influence of Institutional Conditions on English Healthcare Unions’ Framing Efficacy during the Post-Pandemic Strike Wave; Nick KrachlerChapter 3. Engage or Organize? How a Major Canadian Trade Union Approaches Technological Change; Daniel NicholsonChapter 4. From Industrial Citizenship to Precarious Employment? The German Experience of Co-Determination and Union Organizing in Diverse Workplaces; Torben KringsChapter 5. The Relationship between Labor Mobilization and Intra-Union Democracy: Evidence from a Unionization Battle in Türkiye; Hazal GöçmenChapter 6. A Worker-to-Worker Alternative to Staff-Heavy Unionism: The Burgerville Workers Union; Eric BlancChapter 7. From Mobilizing to Organizing in a Time of COVID: Union Power Resources and the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committees; Tod D. RutherfordSpotlight on EthnographyChapter 8. Employees versus Customers: Structural Scarcity and Conflict in Dollar Store Service Work; Tracy L. VargasChapter 9. Checked Out: Coping and Cashiering in Retail Grocery Work; Katherine MottChapter 10. Harnessing the Power of the Ethnographic Tradition in Worker Organizing: The Porous Boundaries of Theory and Practice; Melanie Simms