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1 online resource ix, 259 pages illustrations, maps |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Foreword / by DeMaurice F. Smith -- Introduction : Who rules? -- Part 1. How Did We Get Here? 1. Collective bargaining : A powerful but neglected tool -- 2. Workplace democracy does not happen by accident : A story of US labor movements -- 3. The great rollback : Capital fights back -- Part 2. The Building Blocks of Economic Democracy. Profile of the author : Erica Smiley : In exactly the right place -- 4. Worth fighting for : Collective bargaining in the workplace -- 5. Beyond workers : Organizing whole people -- 6. Organizing all people : We will not win without destroying white supremacy and patriarchy -- 7. Beyond the red and the blue : A new map for twenty-first-century organizers -- Part 3. The Way We Win. Profile of the author : Sarita Gupta : Making meaning of the world -- 8. Bargaining with the real decision-makers : The ultimate profiteers of global capitalism -- 9. Community-driven bargaining : Negotiating beyond the workplace -- 10. Building long-term labor-community power : Bargaining for the common good -- 11. Who benefits? Technology, work, and a future not yet written -- Conclusion : What it takes |
| Summary |
In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people--not only changing their wages and working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of their lives. Weaving together stories of real working people, Smiley and Gupta position the struggle to build collective bargaining power as a central element in the effort to build a healthy democracy and explore both existing levers of power and new ones we must build for workers to have the ability to negotiate in today and tomorrow's contexts. The Future We Need illustrates the necessity of centralizing the fight against white supremacy and gender discrimination, while offering paths forward to harness the power of collective bargaining in every area for a new era-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
collective bargaining, working women of color in the us, the future of labor organizing, worker power and a healthy democracy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Erica Smiley is the executive director of Jobs With Justice. Sarita Gupta is director of the Ford Foundation's Future of Work(ers) program |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Labor unions -- Organizing.
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Democracy.
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Collective bargaining.
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Industrial relations.
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Employee rights.
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Collective Bargaining
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industrial relations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
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Collective bargaining
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Democracy
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Employee rights
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Industrial relations
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Labor unions -- Organizing
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gupta, Sarita (Political activist), author.
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Smith, DeMaurice F. writer of foreword
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| ISBN |
9781501764837 |
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1501764837 |
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9781501764844 |
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1501764845 |
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