Unions in crisis? the future of organized labor in America /
From the Publisher: Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the "golden years" of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers' wages increased quite dramatically in a number of industries. For example, average hourly earnings fo...
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Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2008.
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Series: | American social and political movements.
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Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- The importance of the labor movement
- The rise and fall of organized labor
- Strategies to stop the decline
- SEIU and change to win : progressive or more of the same?
- Social justice unionism : a path to labor's renewal
- Nontraditional strategies
- Conclusion : a beginning.