U S Labor In Trouble/Trans Pa

by Moody,Kim

• ISBN13: 9781844671540
• ISBN10: 1844671542
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-17
• Publisher: VERSO
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Summary

US Labor in Trouble and Transition tellsthe story of union decline in America and of the split in the labormovement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers andmanagement partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancysince the 1980s. Looking to the future, Moody shows how the rise ofimmigrant labor and its efforts at self-organization can re-energizethe unions from below. US Labor in Trouble and Transition is a major intervention in the on-going debate within the US labor movement.

Author Biography

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and author of Workers in a Lean World. He has taught at the Cornell Labor Studies Program and at Brooklyn College and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
List of Acronyms	p. xi
A Message about the Future from the Present	p. 1
The Great Transformation	p. 11
The Changing Industrial Geography	p. 37
The Changing Industrial Demography	p. 58
Lost Decades	p. 79
The End of Militancy, the Surrender of the Workplace, and the Origins of Decline	p. 98
Winning to Change: The Failure of Reform from Above	p. 121
The Politics of Defeat-One More Time	p. 143
The Split: Reform from Above Again	p. 169
Beneath the Split: Resistance and Change from Below	p. 198
Paths to Power, Roads Not Taken	p. 224
Notes	p. 249
Index	p. 279
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