Re-union : how bold labor reforms can repair, revitalize, and reunite the united states / David Madland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madland, David, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--United States.

Labor policy.

Industrial relations--United States.

Industrial relations.

Labor unions--United States--21st century.

Labor unions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 227 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes for reform. The book's multilayered analysis presents a solution - a model to replace the existing firm-based collective bargaining with a larger, industry-scale bargaining method coupled with powerful incentives for union membership. These changes would represent a remarkable shift from the norm, but would be based on lessons from other countries, US history and current policy in several cities and states. In outlining the shift, the book details how these proposals might mend the broken economic and political systems in the United States. It also uses three examples from Britain, Canada, and Australia to explore what there is yet to learn about this new system in other developed nations.

Contents:

The Plan

Unions as the Solution

The Contours of a Modern Labor System

Lessons from Canada, Britain, and Australia

Answering Skeptics

Creating the New System.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501755385

1501755382

OCLC:

1183399005