Guillermo J. Grenier

Insulating an Ideology The Enclave Effect on South Florida's Cuban Americans

Many Cuban Americans embrace a distinctive anti-Castro ideology. Although this ideology supports the embargo against Cuba—purportedly to bring about the Castro regimes compliance or collapse—the real objectives may be more symbolic than practical. Ultimately, the institutional completeness provided by the enclave in South Florida insulates and regenerates this “exile” ideology. The authors hypothesize that if more than one half of an immigrants time outside of Cuba has been in the South Florida enclave, the odds of supporting the exile ideology will be greater. Using a telephone survey of 1,807 Cuban Americans in South Florida, they find the predicted “enclave effect.” Also, they find that receiving news from English-language media—outside the enclaves institutional matrix—reduces the likelihood of support for the exile ideology.

Labor Law and Managerial Ideology Employee Participation as a Social Control System

This article examines the legal and sociological aspects of worker participation programs. Section 8(a) (2) of the National Labor Relations Act prohibits employers from dominating or interfering with employee organizations, but despite the statutory mandate, some federal courts endorse participative workplace systems as cooperative, nonadversarial, lawful forms of industrial organization. The authors contend that the judicial doctrine may promote an ideology which furthers managerial control over workers and enables management to undermine support for union representation through participatory techniques. A case study is offered to substantiate that argument.

Local Union Relations with Immigrants: the Case of South Florida

U.S. unions are paying increasing attention to &dquo;globalization.&dquo; From the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) struggle, through the successful effort to block &dquo;fast track&dquo; authority to extend that agreement to all of the Americas, to the protests at the Seattle World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in 2000, unions have advanced considerably in their understanding of international global issues and how

Comparative Union Responses to Mass Immigration: Evidence From an Immigrant City

This article places union relationships with immigrant workers into a globalized and historical context, and utilizes primary data to examine the relationships of four unions in the heavily immigrant Miami, Florida area with immigrant workers in the past four decades. Two are building trades unions with a long exclusionary history and two are industrially organized unions, one in the service sector and one in manufacturing. Varying patterns of relationships with immigrants are discovered. Explanations for differing responses can be found in the unions structure, its traditional membership and employer characteristics, its leaderships vision and ideology, and its internal cultural practices. The paper ends with nine predictors of a unions likelihood of successfully integrating immigrants into its membership.