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We are the union : democratic unionism and dissent at Boeing / Dana L. Cloud with R. Keith Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cloud, Dana L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--Kansas--Wichita.
- Labor unions.
- Strikes and lockouts--Kansas--Wichita.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Dissenters--Kansas--Wichita.
- Dissenters.
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
- Boeing Aerospace Company--Management.
- Boeing Aerospace Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shows how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cosy partnership between union leadership & corporate management. Focusing on the 1995 strike at Boeing, Cloud renders a multi-layered account of the battles between company & the union & within the union led by Unionists for Democratic Change.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "to get to Boeing, we first had to take on the union"
- Business unionism and rank-and-file unionism at the turn of the millennium
- Not a smooth flight for Boeing and the union
- Enter the dissidents
- The problem with "jointness"
- The 1995 strike and the rejection of the second contract
- "The feeble strength of one"
- Carrying the memory of agitation : a dialogue between Keith Thomas and Dana Cloud
- Communication and clout
- Conclusion : the beginnings and ends of union democracy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613895288
- 9781283582834
- 128358283X
- 9780252093418
- 0252093410
- OCLC:
- 785781238
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