The future of the American labor movement /

Coming at a time of profound change in the global conditions under which American organized labor exists, The Future of the American Labor Movement, first published in 2002, describes and analyzes labor's strategic alternatives. The analysis is broadly cast, taking into account ideas that range...

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Main Author: Wheeler, Hoyt N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002
Edition:1st ed
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505 0 |a Foreword -- Introduction / by Lynn R. Williams -- A future for the American labor movement? -- Industrial relations in a time of change -- A survey of American union strategies -- The old Reformist Unionism: the noble order of the Knights of Labor -- The new Reformist Unionism: CAFE -- A new version of an old Reformist strategy: employee ownership -- Social Democratic Unionism in action: strategies of European trade unions -- A new twist and TURN on Social Democratic Unionism: unions and regional economic development -- A labor movement for the twenty-first century -- Appendix. Interview with John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO 
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