Stephen Bagwell
@stephenmbagwell.bsky.social
UGA PhD, UMSL assistant prof of political science. Human rights, political violence, and political econ- also, dogs and basketball. Views mine, etc.
This remains one of my favorite courses.
August 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This remains one of my favorite courses.
Something extra odd: this is true for labor rights *practices*, meaning whether people are actually capable of enjoying their rights, but also merely passing laws. The gap between laws and practice is large, though, so an “easy” way to reduce inequalities would be to enforce existing laws.
August 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Something extra odd: this is true for labor rights *practices*, meaning whether people are actually capable of enjoying their rights, but also merely passing laws. The gap between laws and practice is large, though, so an “easy” way to reduce inequalities would be to enforce existing laws.
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A shout out to @aaup.org, the URI Adjunct faculty union, and the URI Professional Staff Association (PSA), a bargaining unit affiliated with the National Education Association of Rhode Island (NEARI).
You are almost always better off in a union, so join one, start one, or support one!
You are almost always better off in a union, so join one, start one, or support one!
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A shout out to @aaup.org, the URI Adjunct faculty union, and the URI Professional Staff Association (PSA), a bargaining unit affiliated with the National Education Association of Rhode Island (NEARI).
You are almost always better off in a union, so join one, start one, or support one!
You are almost always better off in a union, so join one, start one, or support one!
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Promoting labor rights reduces inequality, narrows the racial wealth gap, and serves as a popular policy platform for politicians seeking to win elections. If you expand this to all labor rights, you have a political agenda that motivates a majority of diverse voters and strengthens democracy.
Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever
This piece was also published on Medium. For decades, Americans were evenly divided in their relative support of labor unions and big business, but that’s no longer the case. Now, Americans are more l...
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August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Promoting labor rights reduces inequality, narrows the racial wealth gap, and serves as a popular policy platform for politicians seeking to win elections. If you expand this to all labor rights, you have a political agenda that motivates a majority of diverse voters and strengthens democracy.
Reposted by Stephen Bagwell
We use CIRIGHTS data, which codes US State Department and @amnesty.org human rights reports to assign numerical scores for two dozen human rights. For this piece, we examined the rights to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. We looked at both protection in law and in practice.
About CIRIGHTS
The goal of the CIRIGHTS data project is to create numerical measures for every internationally recognized human right for all countries of the world. Human rights scores are necessary for understa…
cirights.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
We use CIRIGHTS data, which codes US State Department and @amnesty.org human rights reports to assign numerical scores for two dozen human rights. For this piece, we examined the rights to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. We looked at both protection in law and in practice.
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Unions have an incentive to recruit all workers. As a result, they often help to promote racial inequality faster than other parts of society (they tend to be less racist). Where collective labor rights are strong, minorities can also unionize for themselves when they are shut out of other unions
Unions promote racial equity
By now it is well known that unions are a key institution enforcing more equal outcomes by income class in the U.S. economy and that the policy-driven shrinkage of unionization has played a key role i...
www.epi.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Unions have an incentive to recruit all workers. As a result, they often help to promote racial inequality faster than other parts of society (they tend to be less racist). Where collective labor rights are strong, minorities can also unionize for themselves when they are shut out of other unions
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Unions, protected by collective labor rights, negotiate for higher wages, limit corporate power, and lobby for better working conditions for all workers. This is how we got the 40-hour workday, overtime pay, & restrictions on child labor. They also strengthen democracy and act as a check on power.
Unions help reduce disparities and strengthen our democracy
Unions improve wages and benefits for all workers, not just union members. They help reduce income inequality by making sure all Americans, and not just the wealthy elite, share in the benefits of the...
www.epi.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Unions, protected by collective labor rights, negotiate for higher wages, limit corporate power, and lobby for better working conditions for all workers. This is how we got the 40-hour workday, overtime pay, & restrictions on child labor. They also strengthen democracy and act as a check on power.
Reposted by Stephen Bagwell
Building on our scholarly work, we argue that collective labor rights reduce inequality by empowering workers: they reduce the cost of organizing unions, reduce the cost of collective bargaining, create a credible threat for non-union workers to unionize, and protect the right to strike
Union Rights and Inequalities - Human Rights Review
Competing arguments surrounding the relationships between inequalities and labor rights have persisted over time. This paper explores whether labor rights increase or decrease two types of wage inequa...
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August 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Building on our scholarly work, we argue that collective labor rights reduce inequality by empowering workers: they reduce the cost of organizing unions, reduce the cost of collective bargaining, create a credible threat for non-union workers to unionize, and protect the right to strike
Based on work published in Human Rights Review.
July 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Based on work published in Human Rights Review.
Domestic policy approaching it, too. (Pardon the self promotion)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights - Stephen Bagwell, Matthew Rains, Meridith LaVelle, 2024
Why do states and their agents abuse citizens? Traditional explanations focus on contentious politics, the presence of institutions, and international pressures...
journals.sagepub.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Domestic policy approaching it, too. (Pardon the self promotion)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sorry Anthony! Hope you are able to recover and enjoy the rest of your trip. Statistically, it’s very improbable it’ll happen again this trip.
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sorry Anthony! Hope you are able to recover and enjoy the rest of your trip. Statistically, it’s very improbable it’ll happen again this trip.