Hard work : remaking the American labor movement / Rick Fantasia, Kim Voss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fantasia, Rick.

Contributor:

Voss, Kim.

Standardized Title:

Des syndicats domestiqués. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--United States.

Labor movement.

Labor unions--Social aspects--United States.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--United States--Management.

Industrial relations--United States.

Industrial relations.

Management.

Labor unions--Social aspects.

United States.

Bureaucracy--United States.

Bureaucracy.

Physical Description:

xv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]

Summary:

This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with information and valuable analysis, Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America.

Contents:

Why labor matters: the underside of the "American model"

An exceptionally hostile terrain

Bureaucrats, "strongmen," militants, and intellectuals

Practices and possibilities of social movement unionism

Two futures.

Notes:

Revised and enlarged edition of Des syndicats domestiqués, which was originally written in English, then translated into French and published in Paris by Raisons d'agir, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-228) and index.

ISBN:

0520240138

0520240901

OCLC:

53289909

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