| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 402 pages) |
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Frank W. Pierce memorial lectureship and conference series ; no. 11 |
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Frank W. Pierce memorial lectureship and conference series ; no. 11.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Revival of the American Labor Movement: issues, problems, prospects / Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz, and Richard W. Hurd. -- Building social movement unionism: the transformation of the American labor movement / Lowell Turner and Richard W. Hurd. -- Organize for what? : the resurgence of labor as a citizenship movement / Paul Johnston. -- Living with flexibility / Charles Heckscher. -- Lost ways of unionism: historical perspectives on reinventing the labor movement / Dorothy Sue Cobble. -- Organizing immigrant workers: case studies from Southern California / Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong. -- Structural change in the AFL-CIO: a regional study of Union Cities' impact / Jill Kriesky. -- Confronting the dilemmas of organizing: obstacles and innovations at the AFL-CIO organizing institute / Amy Foerster. -- Overcoming obstacles to transformation: challenges on the way to a new unionism / Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Richard W. Hurd. -- The evolution of strategic and coordinated bargaining campaigns in the 1990s: the steelworkers' experience / Kate Bronfenbrenner and Tom Juravich. -- Union mergers and union revival: are we asking too much or too little? / Gary Chaison. -- Building the high road in metro areas: sectoral training and employment projects / Eric Parker and Joel Rogers. -- Organized labor versus globalization: NAFTA, Fast Track, and PNTR with China / James Shoch. -- Free trade, fair trade, and the battle for labor rights / Lance Compa. -- Afterword: whither the American labor movement / Harry C. Katz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-373) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor unions -- United States.
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Labor movement -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor movement
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Labor unions
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Arbeiterbewegung
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Gewerkschaft
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Syndicalisme -- États-Unis -- 1970-2000.
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Mouvement ouvrier -- États-Unis -- 1970-2000.
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Katz, Harry C. (Harry Charles), 1951-
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Hurd, Richard W
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New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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| ISBN |
9781501717185 |
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1501717189 |
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