Previous scholarship on labor rhetoric has concentrated on the impact of declining union membership and contemporary activist strategies on the part of unions. The press release is a common form of communication that organized labor employs in order to reach its publics. This study explores the press releases of the Texas State AFL-CIO to determine to what extent this level of labor discourse meets the criteria of a rhetorical genre. This study employs the methodology for generic criticism laid out by Foss for identifying genres. The study concludes that a genre of labor rhetoric exists and that the genre was used extensively to promote the Texas State AFL-CIO as a socially-conscious and politically motivated organization.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500348 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Welborn, Ronny D. |
| Contributors | Bruner, Michael S., Southain, Louis D., Gossett, John S. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | v, 157 leaves, Text |
| Coverage | United States - Texas |
| Rights | Public, Welborn, Ronny D., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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