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9781844671540

U S Labor In Trouble/Trans Pa

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    9781844671540

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    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

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
List of Tablesp. ix
List of Acronymsp. xi
A Message about the Future from the Presentp. 1
The Great Transformationp. 11
The Changing Industrial Geographyp. 37
The Changing Industrial Demographyp. 58
Lost Decadesp. 79
The End of Militancy, the Surrender of the Workplace, and the Origins of Declinep. 98
Winning to Change: The Failure of Reform from Abovep. 121
The Politics of Defeat-One More Timep. 143
The Split: Reform from Above Againp. 169
Beneath the Split: Resistance and Change from Belowp. 198
Paths to Power, Roads Not Takenp. 224
Notesp. 249
Indexp. 279
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