Rosenfeld, Jake.

What Unions No Longer Do. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (288 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Collapse of Organized Labor in the United States -- 2. Government Is Not the Answer: Why Public-Sector Unionism Won't Rescue the Labor Movement -- 3. Wages and Inequality -- 4. Strikes -- 5. The Timing Was Terrible: Deunionization and Racial Inequality -- 6. Justice for Janitors: Deunionization and Hispanic Economic Assimilation -- 7. The Ballot Box Deunionization and Political Participation -- 8. The Past as Prologue: The Labor Movement Pre-New Deal, Today, and Tomorrow -- Appendix: Data and Methods -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

From wages to elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. Today, the only thing big about Big Labor is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the repercussions of labor's collapse, particularly in the battle against inequality.

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Labor movement-United States.
Income distribution-United States.
Labor unions-Political activity-United States.
Minorities-United States-Social conditions.


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