Where’s the “Freedom” in Free Trade? Framing Practices and Global Economic Justice

Social movement theorists have noted that social action necessarily requires a change in attitude or consciousness, a fundamental restructuring of beliefs that subsequently inform actions (Jasper, 1997). Such changes are known as framing practices, which critique status quo social relations, policies or practices and offer a vision for a new way forward (Noakes & Johnston, 2005). Like other social movement actors, labor and economic justice organizers have fashioned new frames that fundamentally question specific capitalist practices and present new ideas for labor grounded in economic justice.