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 |
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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