What Unions No Longer Do / / Jake Rosenfeld.

From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 34 graphs, 14 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Collapse of Organized Labor in the United States
  • 2 Government Is Not the Answer
  • 3 Wages and Inequality
  • 4 Strikes
  • 5 The Timing Was Terrible
  • 6 Justice for Janitors?
  • 7 The Ballot Box
  • 8 The Past as Prologue
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index