What S What In The Labor Movement

Author : William E. Scheuerman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438485508

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A New American Labor Movement by William E. Scheuerman Pdf

The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheuerman analyzes how the decline of unions and the emergence of these new direct-action movements are reshaping the American labor movement. Tens of thousands of exploited workers—from farm laborers and gig drivers to freelance artists and restaurant workers—have taken to the streets in a collective attempt to attain a living wage and decent working conditions, with or without the help of unions. This new worker militancy, expressed through mass demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, political action, and similar activities, has already achieved much success and offers models for workers to exercise their power in the twenty-first century. Finally, Scheuerman notes, many of the strategies of the new direct-action groups share features with the sectoral bargaining model that dominates the European labor movement, suggesting that sectoral bargaining may become the foundation of a new American labor movement.

Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0717806529

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History of the Labor Movement in the United States by Philip Sheldon Foner Pdf

Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action 1918-1920.

Author : Gerald Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135985820

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Reigniting the Labor Movement by Gerald Friedman Pdf

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement‘s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earlies

Author : William E. Forbath
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674037083

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Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement by William E. Forbath Pdf

Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.

Author : George E McNeil
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022862758

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The Labor Movement by George E McNeil Pdf

This book provides an overview of the history and philosophy of the labor movement in the United States. It covers the early struggles of workers for better wages and working conditions, the rise of labor unions, the impact of labor strikes and protests, and the changing dynamics of the modern workplace. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Philip S. Foner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608469212

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Women and the American Labor Movement by Philip S. Foner Pdf

A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970's.

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784783006

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The Death and Life of American Labor by Stanley Aronowitz Pdf

The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming—the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker. In the ’50s and ’60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness was a landmark in the study of the US working-class and workers’ movements. Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian’s understanding of American workers’ struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor’s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers’ movement.

Author : Joe Burns
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642596816

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Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns Pdf

For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.

Author : Stephanie Luce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745682396

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Labor Movements by Stephanie Luce Pdf

Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration, can unions still play a role in raising wages and improving work conditions? This book provides a critical evaluation of labor unions both in the U.S. and globally, examining the factors that have led to the decline of union power and arguing that, despite their challenges, unions still have a vital part to play in the global economy. Stephanie Luce explores the potential sources of power that unions might have, and emerging new strategies and directions for the growth of global labor movements, such as unions, worker centers, informal sector organizations, and worker co-operatives, helping workers resist the impacts of neoliberalism. She shows that unions may in fact be more relevant now than ever. This important assessment of labor movements in the global economy will be required reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of labor studies, political and economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social movements.

Author : Waldo Ralph Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCAL:$B240469

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What's what in the Labor Movement by Waldo Ralph Browne Pdf

Author : Rick Fantasia,Kim Voss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520240902

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Hard Work by Rick Fantasia,Kim Voss Pdf

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Author : Mary Ritter Beard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 1436914523

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A Short History of the American Labor Movement (1920) by Mary Ritter Beard Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Steven Greenhouse
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101874431

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Beaten Down, Worked Up by Steven Greenhouse Pdf

“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book Review We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wage gains, one in which low-paid jobs and blighted blue-collar communities have become a common feature of our nation’s landscape. Behind these trends lies a little-discussed problem: the decades-long decline in worker power. Award-winning journalist and author Steven Greenhouse guides us through the key episodes and trends in history that are essential to understanding some of our nation’s most pressing problems, including increased income inequality, declining social mobility, and the concentration of political power in the hands of the wealthy few. He exposes the modern labor landscape with the stories of dozens of American workers, from GM employees to Uber drivers to underpaid schoolteachers. Their fight to take power back is crucial for America’s future, and Greenhouse proposes concrete, feasible ways in which workers’ collective power can be—and is being—rekindled and reimagined in the twenty-first century. Beaten Down, Worked Up is a stirring and essential look at labor in America, poised as it is between the tumultuous struggles of the past and the vital, hopeful struggles ahead. A PBS NewsHour Now Read This Book Club Pick

Author : Terence Vincent Powderly,Edmund Janes James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Labor
ISBN : UOM:39015075049075

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The Labor Movement: the Problem of To-day by Terence Vincent Powderly,Edmund Janes James Pdf

Author : Toni Gilpin
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642590890

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The Long Deep Grudge by Toni Gilpin Pdf

“The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism.” —Ahmed A. White, author of The Last Great Strike This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines. International Harvester—and the McCormick family that largely controlled it—garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s, but in the twentieth century also pioneered sophisticated union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard corporate practice. On the other side the militant Farm Equipment Workers union, connected to the Communist Party, mounted a vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define the American labor movement after World War II. This evocative account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried through to the present, reads like a novel. Biographical sketches of McCormick family members, union officials and rank-and-file workers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz musicians, Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob lawyers. It touches on pivotal moments and movements as wide-ranging as the Haymarket “riot,” the Flint sit-down strikes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the McCarthy-era anti-communist purges, and America’s late twentieth-century industrial decline. “A capitalist family dynasty, a radical union, and a revolution in how and where work gets done—Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge is a detailed chronicle of one of the most active battlefronts in our ever-evolving class war.” —John Sayles