Copyright (c) 2013 Cornell University ILR School All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/bookreviews Recent documents in Book Reviews en-us Wed, 01 May 2013 10:20:19 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/bookreviews/2 http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/bookreviews/2 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:05:27 PDT [Excerpt] When de Tocqueville made that famous remark, he could not have foreseen the role this “mother of all forms of knowledge” would play in the twentieth century. America cannot be understood without understanding her social movements. Silke Roth’s new book, Building Movement Bridges: The Coalition of Labor Union Women, focuses on an association described as a bridge between two of America’s most important social movements: labor and the women’s movement.

]]> Sally Alvarez http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/bookreviews/1 http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/bookreviews/1 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:46:51 PDT [Excerpt] Christopher Martin’s highly readable book, Framed: Labor and the Corporate Media, deepens that observation through the application of media framing theory, originally developed by political media scholar Doris Graber in the 1970s. Quoting Todd Gitlin, Martin defines media frames as “persistent patterns of cognition, interpretation and presentation, of selection, emphasis and exclusion, by which symbol-handlers routinely organize discourse, whether verbal or visual.” Embattled union members encounter framing when every airline walkout becomes a media narrative of stranded travelers versus callous strikers, and every press story on unemployment focuses on stock statistics.

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