TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Recent research begins to explore how organizations of informal workers function, and succeed or fail. Using cases of domestic-worker movements in Mexico and the United States, we seek to extend this research by adding historical analysis of the movements’ evolution through a cross-national analysis of movement differences. We draw on concepts from the social movement and intersectionality literature. Historically, the two movements have been propelled by multiple streams of activism corresponding to shifting salient intersectional identities and frames, always including gender but incorporating other elements as well. Comparatively, the US domestic-worker movement recently has had greater success due to superior financial resources and more facilitative political opportunities – advantages due in part precisely to intersectional identities resonant with potential allies. However, this relative advantage was not always present and may not persist. Social movement concepts and intersectional analysis thus help understand both historical changes and cross-national contrasts in informal-worker organizing.
VL  - 35
SN  - 978-1-78769-368-5, 978-1-78769-367-8/0198-8719
DO  - 10.1108/S0198-871920180000035005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920180000035005
AU  - Tilly Chris
AU  - Rojas-García Georgina
AU  - Theodore Nik
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Intersectional Histories, Overdetermined Fortunes: Understanding Mexican and US Domestic Worker Movements
T2  - Gendering Struggles against Informal and Precarious Work
T3  - Political Power and Social Theory
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 121
EP  - 145
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -