Our organizing must be grounded in — not bounded by — local conditions, argues Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
] Thus, in addition to pressing employers for contracts, JfJ’s solution is to organize both the actual market for janitorial servicesthe potential labor market for janitors. This areal approach limits employers’ flexibility because it is their actual and potentialwho agree to do business only with unionized contractors. The solution also requires that labor organizing be community organizing as well, as was the case with the CPUSA’s work in 1930s greater-Birmingham.
] The solutions are grounded in, but not bounded by, local conditions. Indeed, the organicism of Mothers ROC has to do precisely with its attention to the specific sites and scales of power that produce prison geographiesConclusion: From the Crisis of Place to the Politics of Space A small, poor, multiracial group of working-class people, mostly prisoners’ mothers, mobilize in the interstices of the politically abandoned, heavily policed, declining welfare state. They come forward, in the first instance, because they will not let their children go. They stay forward, in the spaces created by intensified imprisonment of their loved ones, because they encounter many mothers and others in the same locations eager to join in the reclamation project.
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