Robust Unionism : : Innovations in the Labor Movement / / Arthur B. Shostak.

In Robust Unionism, Arthur B. Shostak provides an informed survey of organized labor's innovations and adaptations in recent years. If labor is to realize its full potential in the coming decade, he contends, new strategies, modern technologies, and novel alliances are imperative. Shostak provi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1990
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Trimtab Factor
  • Part I: Workplace Issues
  • Chapter 1. Seeking a Better Way of Work
  • Chapter 2. The Priority of Safety
  • Chapter 3. Health Promotion at Work
  • Part II: Organizing and Reorganizing
  • Chapter 4. Encouraging Membership Growth
  • Chapter 5. Solidarity with Professional Employees
  • Chapter 6. Women and Unionism
  • Chapter 7. "Reorganizing" Members
  • Part III: Unions and the Community
  • Chapter 8. Providing More Effective Service
  • Chapter 9. Labor Education
  • Part IV: Public Relations and Politics
  • Chapter 10. Improving Public Relations
  • Chapter 11. Enhancing Union Power
  • Part V: Unions and Business
  • Chapter 12. New Forms of Worker Involvement
  • Chapter 13. Achieving More Effective Alliances
  • Part VI: Creating a Finer Future
  • Chapter 14. Toward the Employ of Futuristics
  • Chapter 15. Making the Most of Mergers
  • Epilogue
  • Methodology and Apology
  • Resource Directory
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author