Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
- The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Labor and Democracy: Theory and Practice
- Part II History, Politics, and Law
- Part III Labor, Diversity, and Democracy
- 10 Coming Apart
- 11 Unions Can Help White Workers Become More Racially Tolerant
- 12 Attacking Democracy through Immigration Workplace Raids
- 13 The Care Crisis
- Part IV Country and Regional Perspectives
- Part V Labor and Democracy Sectoral Case Studies: Platform Workers, Higher Education, and the Care Industry
- Index
- References
10 - Coming Apart
How Union Decline and Workplace Disintegration Imperil Democracy
from Part III - Labor, Diversity, and Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
- The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Labor and Democracy: Theory and Practice
- Part II History, Politics, and Law
- Part III Labor, Diversity, and Democracy
- 10 Coming Apart
- 11 Unions Can Help White Workers Become More Racially Tolerant
- 12 Attacking Democracy through Immigration Workplace Raids
- 13 The Care Crisis
- Part IV Country and Regional Perspectives
- Part V Labor and Democracy Sectoral Case Studies: Platform Workers, Higher Education, and the Care Industry
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the importance of intergroup solidarity in combatting ethnonationalist populism and in sustaining healthy forms of democratic contestation, and the distinctive capacity of trade unions to cultivate intergroup solidarity and elevate it from the workplace level up to the plane of national politics. That distinctive capacity stems in part from unions’ roots in the experience of shared work and the common interests and intergroup ties that can grow out of that experience, and in part from unions’ ability, and indeed their need, to link intergroup solidarity to economic self-interest. That is, unions can and must encourage workers to make common cause and to overcome racial and ethnic divisions in order to pursue shared economic interests.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy , pp. 163 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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