Robust Unionism : Innovations in the Labor Movement / Arthur B. Shostak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shostak, Arthur B., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--United States--Case studies.

Labor unions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 368 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Robust Unionism, Arthur B. Shostak provides an informed survey of organized labor's innovations and adaptations in recent years. If labor is to realize its full potential in the coming decade, he contends, new strategies, modern technologies, and novel alliances are imperative. Shostak provides a wealth of case studies and anecdotes and analyses of labor's specific triumphs in a time of adversity. He argues for the necessity of learning from every success as well as every failure if organized labor is to become a politically powerful and socially dynamic agent for change.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Trimtab Factor

Part I: Workplace Issues

Chapter 1. Seeking a Better Way of Work

Chapter 2. The Priority of Safety

Chapter 3. Health Promotion at Work

Part II: Organizing and Reorganizing

Chapter 4. Encouraging Membership Growth

Chapter 5. Solidarity with Professional Employees

Chapter 6. Women and Unionism

Chapter 7. "Reorganizing" Members

Part III: Unions and the Community

Chapter 8. Providing More Effective Service

Chapter 9. Labor Education

Part IV: Public Relations and Politics

Chapter 10. Improving Public Relations

Chapter 11. Enhancing Union Power

Part V: Unions and Business

Chapter 12. New Forms of Worker Involvement

Chapter 13. Achieving More Effective Alliances

Part VI: Creating a Finer Future

Chapter 14. Toward the Employ of Futuristics

Chapter 15. Making the Most of Mergers

Epilogue

Methodology and Apology

Resource Directory

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4484-4

OCLC:

1125107594