For Many Years There Have Been Efforts to Organize Teaching

question 57

Multiple Choice

for many years there have been efforts to organize teaching assistants on college campuses and form a union.Often these efforts fail because of practical reasons: there are limited volunteers,leaders graduate and leave,and the organizers have limited money for supplies.What theory would be interested in these reasons?

• A) resource mobilization
• B) relative deprivation
• C) mass society
• D) technological diffusion

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Definitions:

Support Workers

Employees who provide assistance or technical services that enable other staff members to perform their jobs more effectively.

Picket Line

A method of protest where employees on strike or their supporters stand outside a workplace to show disagreement with employers over disputes.

Protest Publicize

The act of using protests and demonstrations to raise awareness and draw public attention to specific issues or causes.

Railway Labor Act

A United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railway and airline industries, aiming to avoid service interruptions.