Date of Award
Spring 4-1-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Geosciences
First Advisor
Dr. Katherine Hankins
Abstract
Labor geographers have identified multiple strategies through which workers assert their demands in an era of global production networks. In this thesis I examine the strategic organizational actions of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based organization representing immigrant farm-workers in southwestern Florida. Central to the successes of the CIW is its strategy to organize and embed its agency in civil society. Social actors have proved to be of vital importance as they enabled the CIW to position itself strategically in important locations of the production network to contest capitalist geographies more effectively. Using qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with representatives of churches, religious-community organizations, and interfaith non-profits working with the CIW, I argue that the CIW‘s strategies theoretically expands our understanding of labor agency and how spatiality, and specifically place, shapes the potential for workers‘ agency.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1957658
Recommended Citation
Husebo, Michael, "Labor Agency beyond the Union: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Faith-Based Community Organizations." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1957658