Freedom of Association: Resources

Albert Shanker Institute and Freedom House
“The Global State of Workers’ Rights: Free Labor in a Hostile World (2010).” PDF.

American Federationist
"A Short History of American Labor," March 1981.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Dept. of Labor
“Union Members — 2023.”

Economic Policy Institute

• “Workers Want Unions . . . But Obstacles In Their Path,” Jan. 23, 2024.
• “Do Workers Want Unions: More Than Ever,” by Richard Freeman, May 16, 2007.

Human Rights Web
"A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights."

Human Righs Watch

• “Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the US” (2000).
• “Workers Rights Under Threat in US Meat and Poultry Plants,” Sept. 2019.

International Labour Organization
Home Page, About, and Fundamental Conventions and Ratifications.

International Trade Union Confederation (Home Page).

Kahn, Tom
“Organized Labor as a Mediating Institution,” pp. 125-143, Democracy and Mediating Structures, ed. by Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute (1980).

Lipset, Seymour Martin
“The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993.” American Sociological Review. 59, 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 1-22 (link).

National Public Radio
“The UAW Won Big in the Auto Strike: What That Means,” Nov. 12, 2023.

Roosevelt Institute
“The UAW Was a Success for Workers,” by Ali R. Bustamonte, Nov. 20, 2023.

Tocqueville, Alexis de
“On the Use that Americans Make of Association in Civil Life,” excerpt from Democracy in America, University of Chicago Press (2000).

Economist magazine: Topics Index: Chile.
“Chile’s Crisis Is Not Over Yet,” February 15, 2024.

The New York Times: Times Topics: Chile. See, e.g.:

• “Chile’s Voters Reject a New Conservative Constitution,” Dec. 17, 2023.
• “50 Years Ago, A Bloody Coup Ended Democracy in Chile,” Sept. 11, 2023.
• “Decades After Dictatorship, Chile Mounts Search for Disappeared,” Aug. 30, 2023.
• “Chile Says No to Left-Leaning Constitution,” Sept. 4, 2022.
• “Gabriel Boric: From Shaggy Haired Activist to Chilean President,” Dec. 21, 2021.
• “Dictatorship’s Legacy of Inequality Triggers Mass Protests,” Nov. 3, 2019.

Freedom in the World 2024 Chile Country Report.

Human Rights Watch 2024 Chile Country Report.

Other Resources

Bloomberg News
“Chilean President’s Reforms In Trouble After Tax Setback,” March 8, 2023.

Guardian
“Fifty Years On: The Lasting Tragedy of Chile’s Coup,” Sept. 3, 2023.

Kellogg Institute
“The Labor Movement in Democratic Chile, 1990–2000,” by Frank K. Volker, June 2002.

Jacobin

• “Gabriel Boric Is Struggling to Boost Chile’s Meager Pensions,” Feb. 20, 2024.
• “Why Chileans Rejected the Proposed New Constitution,” Sept. 13, 2022.

New York Review of Books
“Defending Allende“ by Ariel Dorfman, September 23, 2023.

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Western Hemisphere/Chile).

Recommended Films

“No” (2012). Directed by Pablo Larraín.

Economist magazine. Topics Index: Tunisia. See, e.g.:

• “Tunisia After Elections: Spring is Still in the Air,” Oct. 25, 2015.
• “Tunisia’s Democracy Totters as President Suspends Parliament,” July 26, 2021.
• “Farcical Election Turns Tunisia Towards One-Man Rule,” Dec. 20, 2022.
• “Tunisia’s Leader Adopts ‘Great Replacement’ Theory,” March 2, 2023.

The New York Times. Times Topics: Tunisia

• “Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia,” Oct. 9, 2015.
• “Tunisia Arrests a Leading Opposition Figure,” April 18, 2023.

Freedom in the World 2024 Tunisia Country Report.

Human Rights Watch 2024 Tunisia Country Report.

Other Resources

Arab Center
"Kais Saied's Policies and Practices May Lead to an Explosion in Tunisia," by Patricia Karam, Sept. 6, 2024.

Encyclopedia Britanica. “Jasmine Revolution (with Timeline).”

Nobel Peace Prize (the official website of the Nobel Peace Prize)

• Nobel Peace Prize 2015.
• Nobel Peace Prize Presentation, December 2015.
• Nobel Prize Awarded to National Dialogue Quartet (New York Times, Dec. 10, 2015).

Open Democracy.Net
"The Heritage of Farhat Hached 60 Years After His Assassination.” by Rob Prince, December 5, 2012.

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Near East/Tunisia).

Economist magazine: Topics Index China.

The New York Times: Times Topics China.

• “China’s Resolve to Muzzle Rights Lawyers.” December 22, 2015.
• “Remembering a Massacre China Keeps Trying to Erase,” June 7, 2023.

Freedom in the World 2024 China Country Report.

Human Rights Watch 2024 World Report: China.

Other Resources

Albert Shanker Institute. “Chinese Labor Movement: Which Way Forward?” (link).
Video presentation by Han Dongfeng, director of the China Labour Bulletin. 2014.

Binyan, Liu. “Living in Truth.” The New York Review of Books. July 17, 1997."
A review of The Courage to Stand Alone by Wei Jingsheng. Viking: New York, 1997.

China Labour Bulletin (Home Page).
"In China, Labour Activism Is Waking Up,” May 14, 2014.

Wei Jingsheng.
“The Fifth Modernization,” 1978 (PDF version). East Asia Institute of Columbia University.

U.S. Department of State Human Rights Country Reports (go to current year Country Report drop down menu for Asia/China).

For additional resources on China, see Resources in Country Study in Freedom of Expression.