A Strategic-Interaction Analysis of an Urgent Appeal System and Its Outcomes for Garment Workers

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2014-02-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.19.1.N743KW1TWLM37268

F. D. Hond, S. Stolwijk, Jeroen Merk

引用次数: 22

Abstract

Within the global garment industry the term "urgent appeal" is used to describe a request for action to Western activist groups for support in a specific case of labor rights violations. The urgent appeal system has become an important strategy for the transnational antisweatshop movement. It is distinct from the movement's other strategies because it directly supports garment workers in their struggle for improved labor conditions while simultaneously informing and mobilizing Western consumers about substandard labor conditions in the garment industry. This article explores how reflexivity in the use of this particular strategy, strategic choice in its implementation, and interaction with allies and targets affect outcomes for garment workers. It confirms the relevance of the emerging strategic-interaction perspective in explaining movement outcomes.

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服装工人紧急申诉制度及其效果的战略互动分析

在全球服装业中，“紧急呼吁”一词用于描述在特定的侵犯劳工权利的案件中向西方激进组织请求支持的行动。紧急呼吁制度已成为跨国反血汗工厂运动的重要策略。它不同于该运动的其他策略，因为它直接支持服装工人争取改善劳动条件的斗争，同时向西方消费者通报和动员服装行业不合标准的劳动条件。本文探讨了使用这一特定战略的反身性、实施中的战略选择以及与盟友和目标的互动如何影响服装工人的结果。它证实了新兴的战略互动观点在解释运动结果方面的相关性。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.