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The Roots of Coalition Building: Neighborhood Crossings and Skilled Trade Workers in the Face of Recession Get access

Diana K. Johnson
in Seattle in Coalition: Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1999
Published: 28 March 2023
...This chapter analyses and chronicles the United Construction Workers’ Association (UCWA), formed in 1970. The chapter positions the UCWA as key to the foundations of larger patterns of multiracial coalition building stemming from Seattle’s neighborhoods of color. This also depended upon activism...
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Coalitional Transnationalism: The Skilled Trades, Gender Politics, and Third World Solidarity Get access

Diana K. Johnson
in Seattle in Coalition: Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1999
Published: 28 March 2023
...This chapter moves to the mid-1970s to explore increasing facets of transnational and Third World solidarity activism among Seattle coalition builders. In the process, this portion of the book centers the evolution of the United Construction Workers Association as well as the development of two new...