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The realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion, labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service jobs. In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries: South Korea and the United States. Using comparative historical inquiry and in-depth case studies, she shows how labor movements in countries with different histories and structures of economic development, class formation, and cultural politics embark on similar trajectories of change. Chun shows that as the base of worker power shifts from those who hold high-paying, industrial jobs to the formerly "unorganizable," labor movements in both countries are employing new strategies and vocabularies to challenge the assault of neoliberal globalization on workers' rights and livelihoods. Deftly combining theory and ethnography, she argues that by cultivating alternative sources of "symbolic leverage" that root workers' demands in the collective morality of broad-based communities, as opposed to the narrow confines of workplace disputes, workers in the lowest tiers are transforming the power relations that sustain downgraded forms of work. Her case studies of janitors and personal service workers in the United States and South Korea offer a surprising comparison between converging labor movements in two very different countries as they refashion their relation to historically disadvantaged sectors of the workforce and expand the moral and material boundaries of union membership in a globalizing world.

POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Labor & Industrial Relations --- Labor movement --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Political aspects --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- K9409 --- K9417 --- K9418.20 --- Korea: Economy and industry -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Korea: Economy and industry -- labor and employment --- Korea: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- social conditions

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K9400.80 --- K9409 --- Korea: Economy and industry -- history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Korea: Economy and industry -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Industrialization --- Saving and investment --- Accumulation, Capital --- Capital accumulation --- Capital formation --- Investment and saving --- Saving and thrift --- Capital --- Supply-side economics --- Wealth --- Investments --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Mathematical models --- Korea (South) --- Economic policy. --- Saving and investment - Korea (South) - Mathematical models --- Industrialization - Korea (South) --- Korea (South) - Economic policy

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Capitalism --- Korea (South) --- Economic policy --- K9309 --- K9400.80 --- K9409 --- K9417 --- K9480 --- Korea: Social sciences, society -- social theory, movements and protests --- Korea: Economy and industry -- history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Korea: Economy and industry -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Korea: Economy and industry -- labor and employment --- Korea: Economy and industry -- finance industries --- USAMGIK --- United States Army Military Government in Korea --- Taehan Minʼguk --- Han guo --- Dae Han Min Kuk --- Tae Han Min Guk --- Daehan-Minʼguk --- South Korea --- Tai Han Min Kook --- South Korean Interim Government --- S.K.I.G. --- SKIG --- Nam Chosŏn Kwado Chŏngbu --- Namjosŏn --- Namjosŏn Kwado Chŏngbu --- Republic of Korea --- Da Han Minguo --- Daehan Min-kuk --- Daikan Minkoku --- ROK --- 대한민국 --- 大韓民國 --- 대한 민국 --- Daehanminguk --- Ȯmnȯd Solongos --- Emu̇nedu̇ Solungus --- Solongos (South) --- Solungus (South) --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Solongos Uls --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Solungus Ulus --- I︠U︡zhnai︠a︡ Korei︠a︡ --- Южная Корея --- Korei︠a︡ (South) --- Корея (South) --- BNSU --- БНСУ