Chris Tilly

UCLA Health

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Françoise Carré

University of Massachusetts Boston

Philip Moss

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Charles Tilly

New School

Marie Kennedy

Loyola Marymount University

Hal Salzman

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Heather Boushey

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Randy Albelda

University of Massachusetts Boston

Barry Bluestone

Northeastern University

Lawrence D. Bobo

Harvard University Press

Hugo Sarmiento

Universidade Federal do Paraná

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Capitalist Law, Relations of Production and Exploitation, and Structured Possibilities for Contention, or Using Three Tillys to Make One Argument

Routledge eBooks (2015)

Chris Tilly

[Maryland State Representative Howard] Rawlings is sympathetic to BUILD's [a Baltimore community organization's] aims, but he said that "short of a revolution," it will be difficult to vault $5-an-hour downtown workers into the "living-wage" category.

Argument (complex analysis)

10.4324/9781315635040-11

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Varied Work, Segmented Work

Routledge eBooks (2019)

Chris Tilly Charles Tilly

10.4324/9780429268151-8

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Contention at Work

Routledge eBooks (2019)

Chris Tilly Charles Tilly

10.4324/9780429268151-11

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Stories Employers Tell: Race, Skill, and Hiring in America

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (2002)

David Fasenfest Philip Moss Chris Tilly

10.2307/3090018

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Restructuring the Employment Relationship

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (2001)

Chris Tilly Duncan Gallie Michael White Yuan Cheng Mark Tomlinson

This masterly new study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of the changes in British work experiences and employment relationships between the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on the Employment in Britain surveya national survey providing the richest source of evidence to date about individuals' experience of employmentit examines the impact of new technologies, the emergence of new management policies, the changing forms of employment contract, and the growth of job insecurity on people's experience of employment. The authors focus on the implications these developments have for the ways in which skills and work tasks have been changing, the nature of control at work, the degree of participation in decision-making, and the flexibility demanded at work. They assess whether there has been a tendency towards either a polarization or convergence of employment experiences between men and women, and between occupational classes. They offer fresh insight into how the changing quality of work in recent years has affected employee's involvement in their jobs and organizations, the stress they experience at work, and the propensity for absenteeism and staff turnover. While the study provides strong evidence of a marked trend towards upskilling, the authors take issue with the argument that a new type of employment relationship is emerging, arguing instead that the restructuring of the employment relationship has, in fact, reinforced traditional lines of division in the workforce.

Restructuring

10.2307/2654333

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Labor in the Global South: Transnational Turmoil, Latin American Lessons

Perspectives on Politics (2013)

Chris Tilly

Mark S. Anner opens Solidarity Transformed by referencing two wrenching changes that have transformed the world for workers: neoliberalism—the scaling back of welfare states, industrial policies, and labor protections—and globalization. He questions how these shifts have affected workers and how worker organizations in diverse settings have responded.

Neoliberalism (international relations)

10.1017/s1537592712003039

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Missives from Mexico

Humanity & Society (2004)

Chris Tilly Marie Kennedy

10.1177/016059760402800207

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The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (2002)

Julia Wrigley Barry Bluestone Mary Huff Stevenson Michael P. Massagli Philip Moss

Harlem Renaissance

10.2307/3090020

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Too many cooks? Tracking internal labor market dynamics in food service with case studies and quantitative data

Julia Lane Philip Moss Hal Salzman Chris Tilly

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10.7282/t3959kc0

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An opportunity not taken…yet: U.S. labor and the current economic crisis - eScholarship

Chris Tilly

The United States is undergoing what in many ways is its most profound economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Great Recession, as it is popularly called, is having a devastating impact on U.S. workers. In this context, U.S. unions, workers’ most important advocates, have been vociferous in calling for financial reform, job creation, and other strong policy measures. However, whereas the Great Depression in the United States saw labor engaged in dramatic mass mobilizations, large-scale militant actions, and a powerful role in promoting policy changes, the current economic slump the U.S. labor movement has accomplished none of these things. At first glance, this absence may seem surprising. However, I will argue, expanding on an earlier analysis by Milkman (2010) that in fact, it is a relatively unsurprising outcome of both long-term historical trends and shorter-term conjunctural factors. The paper makes this case in four sections. First, I briefly summarize the impact of the crisis on U.S. workers. Second, I describe the response of U.S. unions to the Great Recession, drawing extensively on online searches to document my findings. Third, I discuss the long-term and short-term reasons for the very limited nature of that response. In closing, I explore some alternative paths that may indeed lead U.S. labor to mount a more vigorous response in the months and years to come.

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