The Assault On Labor

Author : Ellen Dannin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781501732393

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Taking Back the Workers' Law by Ellen Dannin Pdf

Prolabor critics often question the effectiveness of the National Labor Relations Board. Some go so far as to call the Board labor's enemy number one. In a daring book that is sure to be controversial, Ellen Dannin argues that the blame actually lies with judicial decisions that have radically "rewritten" the National Labor Relations Act. But rather than simply bemoan this problem, Dannin offers concrete solutions for change. Dannin calls for labor to borrow from the strategy mapped out by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the early 1930s to eradicate legalized racial discrimination. This book lays out a long-term litigation strategy designed to overturn the cases that have undermined the NLRA and frustrated its policies. As with the NAACP, this strategy must take place in a context of activism to promote the NLRA policies of social and industrial democracy, solidarity, justice, and worker empowerment. Dannin contends that only by promoting these core purposes of the NLRA can unions survive—and even thrive.

Author : Sandra L. Albrecht
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498537711

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The Assault on Labor by Sandra L. Albrecht Pdf

The Assault on Labor details the 1986 Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA) strike against Trans World Airlines (TWA), one of the most dramatic instances of the heightened labor conflict in the 1980s. Using extensive court, union, and company documents, The Assault on Labor shows how the expanded use of permanent replacements in labor disputes has fundamentally altered workers’ legal right to strike. Set within one of the biggest corporate raids of the time, it was a strike of a predominantly female labor force that garnered respect throughout the labor movement for its solidarity and determination. Faced with the permanent replacement of over 5000 strikers, IFFA waged a three year struggle to return all workers to the line, mobilizing political, economic, and legal actions to secure their jobs and survive as a union. Despite critical successes in the courts in the aftermath of the strike, the Supreme Court would render a decision that further strengthened permanent replacements. Since the 1980s, labor’s major form of protest, the right to strike, has all but disappeared.

Author : Jasmine Kerrissey,Eve Weinbaum,Clare Hammonds,Tom Juravich,Dan Clawson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501746611

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Labor in the Time of Trump by Jasmine Kerrissey,Eve Weinbaum,Clare Hammonds,Tom Juravich,Dan Clawson Pdf

Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working–class movement. While President Trump's election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response. Essays in the volume examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes. Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest; Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided; Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Sarah Jaffe, co-host of Dissent Magazine's Belabored podcast; Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jennifer Klein, Yale University; Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center; Jose La Luz, labor activist and public intellectual; Nancy MacLean, Duke University; MaryBe McMillan, President of the North Carolina state AFL-CIO; Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; Lara Skinner, The Worker Institute at Cornell University; Kyla Walters, Sonoma State University

Author : Anita Chan
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765611511

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China's Workers Under Assault by Anita Chan Pdf

This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises. The cases include urban workers migrant workers from the countryside, and workers who are sent to work outside of China. The analytical framework for these case studies lays out why labor rights violations have been occurring in China and highlights the contex in which these violations operate and the extent to which these selected cases are not isolated incidents. Moreover, the dilemma of Chinese workers is put into international perspective: the context of the international labor market, the setting of competitive minimum wages in Asia, and the concern for Chinese workers' rights taken up by the International Labor Organization (ILO). This book debunks the conventional wisdom that Chinese workers are thriving because the Chinese economy is booming. Indeed the wage structures of these enterprises of different ownership types contribute to widening income disparities in China. The book uncovers what exactly overseas Chinese entrepreneurship (Taiwan and Hong Kong), means at the factory level. And it calls for a new approach to scrutinizing the phenomena of the so-called Chinese economic miracle and it's repercussions on other economies and labor markets.

Author : Sandra L Albrecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498537723

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The Assault on Labor by Sandra L Albrecht Pdf

The Assault on Labor details the 1986 strike against Trans World Airlines (TWA) by the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA), a predominantly female labor force of over 6000 members who garnered respect throughout the labor movement for their solidarity and determination in a three year struggle to return its workers to the line.

Author : G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002613177

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Who Rules America Now? by G. William Domhoff Pdf

The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Economic development
ISBN : OCLC:1302080704

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Real World Labor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252064399

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Selling Free Enterprise by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf Pdf

The post-World War II years in the United States were marked by the business community's efforts to discredit New Deal liberalism and undermine the power and legitimacy of organized labor. In Selling Free Enterprise, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf describes how conservative business leaders strove to reorient workers away from their loyalties to organized labor and government, teaching that prosperity could be achieved through reliance on individual initiative, increased productivity, and the protection of personal liberty. Based on research in a wide variety of business and labor sources, this detailed account shows how business permeated every aspect of American life, including factories, schools, churches, and community institutions.

Author : Steven K. Ashby,C. J. Hawking
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252076404

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Staley by Steven K. Ashby,C. J. Hawking Pdf

This on-the-ground labor history focuses on the bitterly contested labor conflict in the early 1990s at the A. E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where workers waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. Originally family-owned, A. E. Staley was bought out by the multinational conglomerate Tate & Lyle, which immediately launched a full-scale assault on its union workforce. Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and black communities, building a national and international solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. Drawing on seventy-five interviews, videotapes of every union meeting, and their own active involvement organizing with the Staley workers, Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking bring the workers' voices to the fore and reveal their innovative tactics, such as work-to-rule and solidarity committees, that inform and strengthen today's labor movement.

Author : Angela B. Cornell,Mark Barenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108839884

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The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy by Angela B. Cornell,Mark Barenberg Pdf

Social scientists and legal scholars from different disciplines and perspectives explore the intersection of labor and democracy.

Author : Michael Schiavone
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781438456836

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Sports and Labor in the United States by Michael Schiavone Pdf

Overview and analysis of labor relations in the big four American sports. Longlisted for the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing presented by PEN American Center Are today’s professional athletes nothing more than selfish, greedy millionaires with no idea how ordinary people live? The common perception of today’s professional baseball, basketball, football, and hockey players is of individuals always wanting more money and better working conditions. When it comes to labor issues in sports, the usual media spin portrays topics such as strikes by players and lockouts by owners as millionaires in dispute with billionaires; each group as self-interested as the other. However, as is often the case, the truth is vastly different. Sports and Labor in the United States demonstrates that players are often exploited by ownership and fight for matters of principle, not simply material gain. In accessible, nontechnical language, Michael Schiavone presents a comprehensive examination of labor relations in American professional sports and how they have evolved over time. Separate chapters on MLB, the NFL, the NBA, and the NHL provide an overview and analysis of each sport from their organized beginnings up to the present day. Like no other work before it, Sports and Labor in the United States provides a comprehensive and detailed understanding of labor relations in American sports for scholars, those interested in labor issues, and sports fans. Michael Schiavone is the author of Unions in Crisis? The Future of Organized Labor in America.

Author : David Brody
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Labor-unions
ISBN : UCSC:32106005132466

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The American Labor Movement by David Brody Pdf

Compilation of essays on the origins of the labour movement and the development of trade union in the USA - covers trade union leadership and membership, historical and political aspects, working class radicalism, voluntarism, labour relations, racial discrimination against Blacks in the trade unions, etc. Bibliography pp. 159 to 162 and references.

Author : Jennifer Jihye Chun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801457210

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Organizing at the Margins by Jennifer Jihye Chun Pdf

The realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion, labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service jobs. In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries: South Korea and the United States. Using comparative historical inquiry and in-depth case studies, she shows how labor movements in countries with different histories and structures of economic development, class formation, and cultural politics embark on similar trajectories of change. Chun shows that as the base of worker power shifts from those who hold high-paying, industrial jobs to the formerly "unorganizable," labor movements in both countries are employing new strategies and vocabularies to challenge the assault of neoliberal globalization on workers' rights and livelihoods. Deftly combining theory and ethnography, she argues that by cultivating alternative sources of "symbolic leverage" that root workers' demands in the collective morality of broad-based communities, as opposed to the narrow confines of workplace disputes, workers in the lowest tiers are transforming the power relations that sustain downgraded forms of work. Her case studies of janitors and personal service workers in the United States and South Korea offer a surprising comparison between converging labor movements in two very different countries as they refashion their relation to historically disadvantaged sectors of the workforce and expand the moral and material boundaries of union membership in a globalizing world.

Author : Elizabeth Faue
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136175510

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Rethinking the American Labor Movement by Elizabeth Faue Pdf

Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the "labor movement." While the efforts of the American labor force towards greater wealth parity have been rife with contention, the struggle has embraced a broad vision of a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and a desire for workers to have greater control over their own lives. In this succinct and authoritative volume, Elizabeth Faue reconsiders the varied strains of the labor movement, situating them within the context of rapidly transforming twentieth-century American society to show how these efforts have formed a political and social movement that has shaped the trajectory of American life. Rethinking the American Labor Movement is indispensable reading for scholars and students interested in American labor in the twentieth century and in the interplay between labor, wealth, and power.

Author : Duncan Chappell,Vittorio Di Martino,International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221179486

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Violence at Work by Duncan Chappell,Vittorio Di Martino,International Labour Office Pdf

Violence at work, ranging from bullying and mobbing, to threats by psychologically unstable co-workers, sexual harassment and homicide, is increasing worldwide and has reached epidemic levels in some countries. This updated and revised edition looks at the full range of aggressive acts, offers new information on their occurrence and identifies occupations and situations at particular risk. It is organised in three sections: understanding violence at work; responding to violence at work; future action.