Evolving Strategies of Labor-Community Coalition-Building

Abstract

Multiracial labor-community coalitions have attracted considerable attention from scholars and activists based on their potential to rebuild local working-class movements, but we lack a systematic understanding of their emergence and evolution. This article explores the divergent development of collaborative efforts in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh following successful campaign to pass a living wage ordinance in each city during the late 1990s. Activists' capacity to bridge cultural differences and develop new structures and strategies within an intermediary organizational level is the key factor in explaining the emergence of durable coalitions.

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