Rekindling the Movement : : Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century /

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

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 ey...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 4 tables
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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

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