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1 online resource (413 pages) |
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""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Class Struggle�Theory and Strategy""; ""Marx�s Theory of Classand the World Today""; ""1. Marx�s Theory of Class and the World Today""; ""2. Unions, Strikes, and Class Consciousness Today""; ""3. Contextualizing Organized Labor in Expansion and Crisis: The Case of the United States""; ""4. The Rank-and-File Strategy""; ""5. Updating the Rank-and-File Strategy""; ""6. General Strikes, Mass Strikes: Don�t Call Us, We�ll Call You""; ""Part II The Future of Unions in the United States"" |
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""7. Beating the Union: Union Avoidance in the United States, 1945 to the Present""""8. Union Organizing in the United States: Why It Isn�t Working and How It Might""; ""9. Striking Out in America: Is There an Alternative to the Strike?""; ""10. Competition and Conflict: Union Growth in the US Hospital Industry""; ""11. Immigrant Workers and Labor in the United States""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Author"" |
| Summary |
"In this expansive collection, labor writer Kim Moody explores the present state and the future possibilities of the US labor movement, as well as evaluating the forces working against it. These wide-ranging, accessible essays ask the key questions: What has happened to union organizing in the United States? Is there an alternative to the strike? How does the increased presence of immigrant and women workers change the balance of forces? What strategies can workers use to counteract company 'union avoidance' campaigns and bureaucratic 'business unionism'? What is the role of socialists in the labor movement? Drawing on his own background as a working-class radical, the works of Karl Marx, and the everyday experiences of nurses, miners, autoworkers, and more, Moody sketches a comprehensive picture of the state of US labor--and points the way forward for a rank-and-file union movement that can win real change"--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Labor unions -- United States.
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Labor movement -- United States
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Labor -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor
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Labor movement
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Labor unions
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781608464586 |
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160846458X |
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9781306796569 |
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1306796563 |
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