Rekindling the Movement : : Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century / / ed. by Richard W. Hurd, Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bronfenbrenner, Kate,; Chaison, Gary,; Cobble, Dorothy Sue,; Compa, Lance,; Fletcher, Jr.,; Foerster, Amy,; Heckscher, Charles,; Hurd, Richard W.,; Johnston, Paul,; Juravich, Tom,; Katz, Harry C.,; Kriesky, Jill,; Milkman, Ruth,; Parker, Eric,; Rogers, Joel,; Shoch, James,; Turner, Lowell,; Wong, Kent,
• HerausgeberIn: Hurd, Richard W.,; Katz, Harry C.,; Turner, Lowell,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 4 tables

From gloomy times in the 1980s, the American labor movement has returned to apparent prominence through the efforts of a new generation of energetic and progressive leaders.A distinguished group of authors examines this resurgence and the potential of American unions with sympathetic yet critical eyes. Experts from a wide variety of disciplines—industrial relations, political science, economics, and sociology—identify the central developments, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the new initiatives, and assess the progress made and the prospects for the future. Though all agree on the importance of unions, their opinions of the success of current renewal efforts diverge greatly.The interdisciplinary and comparative approach of Rekindling the Movement is both challenging and enlightening. Rather than merely trumpeting pet opinions, contributors provide hard evidence and causal analysis, grounded in realistic perspectives, to back up suggestions for the improvement of the new labor movement. Their straightforward observations about what is and is not possible, what does and does not work, will be of great practical value for policymakers and union leaders.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Revival of the American Labor Movement -- PART I Reinventing the Labor Movement -- CHAPTER ONE. Building Social Movement Unionism -- CHAPTER TWO. Organize for What? -- CHAPTER THREE. Living with Flexibility -- CHAPTER FOUR. Lost Ways of Unionism -- PART II Organizing Upsurge: Strategic and Structural Innovation -- CHAPTER FIVE. Organizing Immigrant Workers -- CHAPTER SIX. Structural Change in the AFL-CIO -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Confronting the Dilemmas of Organizing -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Overcoming Obstacles to Transformation -- PART III New Strategic and Institutional Orientations -- CHAPTER NINE. The Evolution of Strategic and Coordinated Bargaining Campaigns in the 1990s -- CHAPTER TEN. Union Mergers and Union Revival -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Building the High Road in Metro Areas -- PART IV Politics and Policy -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Organized Labor versus Globalization -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Free Trade, Fair Trade, and the Battle for Labor Rights -- AFTERWORD Whither the American Labor Movement? -- References -- Biographies -- Index