Ramparts of resistance : why workers lost their power and how to get it back / Sheila Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Sheila.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Great Britain.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--United States.

Labor unions--Government policy--Great Britain.

Labor unions--Government policy--United States.

Industrial relations--Great Britain.

Industrial relations.

Industrial relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism. Recent years have seen great changes in the trade union movement, from waves of strikes in the 1970's to a battery of employer and state onslaughts, culminating in the anti-union legislation of the 1980's and 1990's. Looking at grassroots labour struggles, Cohen explores issues of reformism, trade union democracy and the political meaning of ordinary workplace resistance, and puts forward ideas for change. Ramparts of Resistance examines the failure of the union movement to rise to the neo-liberal challenge and calls for a new politics of independent unionism and an explicitly class-based renewal of "workers' power". Coming at a time when union activity and membership involvement continues despite the odds, this book is an inspiring guide to the direction that unionism should take.

Contents:

pt. 1. What happened

pt. 2. What to make of it all.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640763

1849640769

OCLC:

651663917