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What Unions No Longer Do.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726215
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What Unions No Longer DoDDC classification:
  • 331.880973
LOC classification:
  • HD8072
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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