Save our unions dispatches from a movement in distress
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Monthly Review Press
[2013]
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index pt. 1. Rebels with a cause -- pt. 2. Striking back or striking out -- pt. 3. Organizing for the long haul -- pt. 4. Labor's health care muddle -- pt. 5. Telecom labor troubles -- pt. 6. Is there a leader in the house? -- pt. 7. Two, three, many Vermonts! "Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (343 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781583674307 1583674306 9781583674277 1583674276 9781583674284 1583674284 |