User:Madison Luzar/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:
 * Labor History of the United States


 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article is very lengthy, detailed, and fleshed out. It does a good job remaining neutral and presenting many findings from a wide variety of sources. There is a good amount of discussion on the talk page, and the article is rated around B level in the Wikiprojects ratings. All of the content is very relevant and it does a good job of laying out a timeline from before the 1900s until now. However, there is no mention of union coalitions with communities, governments, and activists groups (especially environmentalist groups), which I have done most of my research on.


 * Sources:
 * Kay, Tamara. “New challenges, new alliances- union politicization in a post-NAFTA era.” Labor History. vol. 56, no. 3, 2015, pp. 246-269.
 * Nissen, Bruce. “The Effectiveness and Limits of Labor- Community Coalitions.” Labor Studies Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2004, pp. 68-88.

Option 2

 * Article titleEnvironmental politics
 * Labor unions in the united states


 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article is similar to the last one, but really does that deep dive into the current state and strategies of unions today. It does a good job remaining neutral and presenting many findings from a wide variety of sources. There is a good amount of discussion on the talk page, and the article is rated around B level in the Wikiprojects ratings.


 * Sources:

Turner, Lowell. “Globalization and the Logic of Participation: Unions and the Politics of Coalition.” Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 48, no. 1, 2006, pp. 83-97.

Mayer, Brian. “Cross‐Movement Coalition Formation: Bridging the Labor‐Environment Divide.” Sociological Inquiry, vol. 79, no. 2, 2009, pp. 219-239.

Option 3

 * Article title:
 * Fair Trade


 * Article Evaluation:
 * As I expected, this article does a great job diving into the fair trade movement, as in focusing on fair trade labelling and specific commodities and their methods of production. It is a very detailed and well-sourced article in this sense. But it barely focuses on Trade Justice at all and just adds it onto the end in a very short section. There is a good amount of discussion on the talk page, and the article is rated around B level in the Wikiprojects ratings. However the section on trade justice could definitely be fleshed out more.


 * Sources:
 * Summers, Clyde. “The Battle in Seattle: Free Trade, Labor Rights, and Societal Values.” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, vol. 22, no. 1, 2001, pp. 61-90.
 * Rupert, Mark. “(Re)Politicizing the global economy: Liberal common sense and ideological struggle in the US NAFTA debate.” Review of International Political Economy,  vol. 2, no. 4, 1995, pp. 658-692.

Option 4

 * Article title:
 * Trade Justice


 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article is just starting out, so it is rated "Start" in the Wikiprojects ratings. It is not very fleshed out, has some errors, and is not well organized. It could definitely use work and it is of high importance. It has very few sources but does maintain a neutral tone.


 * Sources:
 * Ayres, Jeffrey. “Framing Collective Action Against Neoliberalism- The Case of the Anti-Globalization Movement.” Journal of World-Systems Research, vol. 10, no. 1, 2004, pp. 11-34.
 * Rupert, Mark. “(Re)Politicizing the global economy: Liberal common sense and ideological struggle in the US NAFTA debate.” Review of International Political Economy,  vol. 2, no. 4, 1995, pp. 658-692.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Labor and the Environment


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is not considered very important, rated as only C class by some economics Wikiprojects. It does an interesting job of connecting labor and environmental concepts along several commodities and their effects, but it does not go into labor-environmental coalitions, which I think would be important in this case.


 * Sources
 * Mayer, Brian, et al. “Labor-Environmental Coalition Formation: Framing and the Right to Know.” Sociological Forum, vol. 25, no. 4, 2010, pp. 746-768.
 * Kay, Tamara. “New challenges, new alliances- union politicization in a post-NAFTA era.” Labor History. vol. 56, no. 3, 2015, pp. 246-269.