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The Broken Table : The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : Russell Sage Foundation, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (398 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610447751
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Broken TableDDC classification:
  • 331.892/977434
LOC classification:
  • PN4899
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Labor Day in America -- Part 1. Worlds of Work: Economic and Civil Society -- 1. The Industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder -- 2. Detroit: Labor and Community -- 3. A "Daily Miracle": The Life of the Workplace -- Part 2. The Institutional Regulation of Labor -- 4. Proper Channels: U.S. Labor Law and Union-Management Relations -- 5. The Path to Confrontation: The Newspapers' Joint Operating Agreement in Detroit -- 6. Extraordinary Measures: Planning for War -- 7. War of Position: The 1995 Contract Negotiations -- Part 3. The Spaces of Conflict -- 8. Worlds Collide: The Start of the Strike -- 9. Law and Violence: Permanent Replacements and the Control of Collective Action -- 10. Theaters of Engagement: Civil Society and the State -- 11. Waiting for Justice: The Return to Work and the End of the Strike -- Part 4. Governing the Workplace: American Labor Today -- 12. Conclusion: A Signal Juncture -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Labor Day in America -- Part 1. Worlds of Work: Economic and Civil Society -- 1. The Industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder -- 2. Detroit: Labor and Community -- 3. A "Daily Miracle": The Life of the Workplace -- Part 2. The Institutional Regulation of Labor -- 4. Proper Channels: U.S. Labor Law and Union-Management Relations -- 5. The Path to Confrontation: The Newspapers' Joint Operating Agreement in Detroit -- 6. Extraordinary Measures: Planning for War -- 7. War of Position: The 1995 Contract Negotiations -- Part 3. The Spaces of Conflict -- 8. Worlds Collide: The Start of the Strike -- 9. Law and Violence: Permanent Replacements and the Control of Collective Action -- 10. Theaters of Engagement: Civil Society and the State -- 11. Waiting for Justice: The Return to Work and the End of the Strike -- Part 4. Governing the Workplace: American Labor Today -- 12. Conclusion: A Signal Juncture -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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