Paul Johnston

Paul Johnston is an author and scholar whose focus is on labor and immigration issues. He serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, on the California Central Coast. Formerly a professor of sociology at Yale University, he has also worked as a union organizer with the United Farm Workers and Service Employees International Union. He helped to develop the Salinas-based Citizenship Project, a 10-year-old Mexican immigrant community-based service, organizing and political action center for workers and their families, founded by Teamsters Local 890 and now closely associated with many labor unions and community organizations on the California Central Coast.

Bibliography

;Journal articles, book chapters:

*Outflanking Power, Reframing Unionism: the Basic Strike of 1999-2001 (Journal of Labor Studies 2003)

*Transnational Citizenries: Reflections from the Field in California (Citizenship Studies 2003)

*The Blossoming of Transnational Citizenship: A California Town Defends Indigenous Immigrants

*Organizing Citizenship at Local 890's Citizenship Project: Unleashing Innovation through an Affiliate Organization (Development in Practice 2003)

*Organize for What? The Resurgence of Labor As Citizenship Movement (published in varying forms in Critical Sociology 2002

*Rekindling the Movement H. Katz and L. Turner, eds., Cornell University Press, 2001

*U.S. Unions in a Globalized Environment B. Nissen, ed., M.E. Sharpe

*Citizens of the Future: the Emergence of Transnational Citizenship among Mexican Immigrants in California T.Aleinikoff and D. Klusmeyer, eds

*Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices, Sage Publications, 2001

*Rethinking Cross-Border Employment in Overlapping Societies: A Citizenship Movement Agenda

*Citizenship work (organizing civic participation & related program issues in naturalization support work)

*Snake-brains, Technocrats and the City: On the Leading Role of the Unionized Intelligencia in the Struggle for Good Government

*(Remarks to the Delegate Assembly of Local 21 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees, AFL-CIO)
*Whether to Fight & How, or, The Fools Rush In (recollections of an anti-war GI)

;Columns & short pieces:

*Start a Union-Led Immigrant Workers Center for Under $10,000 (you CAN do it)

*The Citizenship Project: a Labor-led Community-based Worker Center

*Silence in the Wilderness (Op-Ed published in Santa Cruz Sentinel)

*"We Set Ourselves Up to Win": Strike Success in Santa Cruz County (published in Labor Notes)

*Call for a Health Rights Ordinance

*Medical Apartheid (Op-Ed published in Santa Cruz Sentinel)

*Deadly Arrangements: Death on the Border

*Public Service Unionism and the Coming Fiscal Crisis

*The Strike that Wouldn't Die: Teamsters, Immigrant Workers Celebrate in Basic Strike Success (with Mike Johnston)

*Dialogue for Reconciliation: a Response to War

*The Ashes of Babel; Babel in Perspective

*Rethinking Cross-Border Employment (as Though our Nations Overlapped)

*A New Citizenship

*Escalate to Organize

*The Citizenship Movement: One For the History Books

*Against the Work Stoppage: a New Strike for a New Labor Movement

*Sociology and Social Movement Unionism: Resources for Labor's Learning Process

*Truth, Spin, and Consequences, or, Can We Speak the Truth?

*Behind and Beyond the Living Wage Campaign (1 of 2)

*Anti-Bracero: Rethinking Cross-Border Rights

*Anti-Bracero: Towards Transnational Unionism?