Why Unions Matter

Author : Michael Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583671900

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Why Unions Matter by Michael Yates Pdf

In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to show why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. The new edition not onlyupdates the first, but also examines the record of the New Voice slate that took control of the AFL-CIO in 1995, the continuing decline in union membership and density, the Change to Win split in 2005, the growing importance of immigrant workers, the rise of worker centers, the impacts of and labor responses to globalization, and the need for labor to have an independent political voice. This is simply the best introduction to unions on the market.

Author : Matthew Behrens
Publisher : Between the Lines(CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1771131322

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Unions Matter by Matthew Behrens Pdf

Embrace worker rights and build a better democracy

Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9350020327

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Why Unions Matter by Michael D. Yates Pdf

Author : Guy Mundlak
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839104039

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Organizing Matters by Guy Mundlak Pdf

Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour’s interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.

Author : William E. Scheuerman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Matthew L Behrens
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1771131330

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Unions Matter by Matthew L Behrens Pdf

Income inequality has risen rapidly over the past three decades. In Canada it is now at its highest level since 1928. One of the root causes: the consistent chipping away of labour rights. The labour movement has been left unable to maintain membership levels and incapable of narrowing the income gap through collective bargaining, with profound implications for Canadians. Labour rights are human rights. They provide a powerful democratic counterweight to the growing power of corporations and the wealthy, and are key to a functioning democracy.Unions Matteraffirms the critical role that unions and strong labour rights play in creating greater economic equality and promoting the social wellbeing of all citizens.

Author : Denisha Jones,Jesse Hagopian
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781642595307

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Black Lives Matter at School by Denisha Jones,Jesse Hagopian Pdf

This inspiring collection of accounts from educators and students is “an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system” (Ibram X. Kendi). Since 2016, the Black Lives Matter at School movement has carved a new path for racial justice in education. A growing coalition of educators, students, parents and others have established an annual week of action during the first week of February. This anthology shares vital lessons that have been learned through this important work. In this volume, Bettina Love makes a powerful case for abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones looks at the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education, and prominent teacher union leaders discuss the importance of anti-racism in their unions. Black Lives Matter at School includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from participants across the country who have been building the movement on the ground.

Author : Bev Burke
Publisher : Between the Lines(CA)
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092386667

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Education for Changing Unions by Bev Burke Pdf

Education for Changing Unions presents a rich, stimulating, and provocative storehouse of practical and structured activities, ideas, and debate about union education. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors have created a book to inspire working people and teachers in many settings and locations. All the exercises and activities have been widely tested. Six thematic threads tie the book together: community, democracy, equity, class consciousness, organization building, and the greater good. Evaluation, strategic planning, and survival for the long haul round out the discussion. See also the popular companion book, Educating for a Change, Martin et al. (BTL, 1991).

Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583677124

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Can the Working Class Change the World? by Michael D. Yates Pdf

One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce” – where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals” – lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties – sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change. In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates asks if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class? If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location – to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class, and what all of us might do to change the world.

Author : Jane McAlevey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062908612

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A Collective Bargain by Jane McAlevey Pdf

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: unions. In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning. Until today. Because, as McAlevey shows, unions are making a comeback. Want to reverse the nation’s mounting wealth gap? Put an end to sexual harassment in the workplace? End racial disparities on the job? Negotiate climate justice? Bring back unions. As McAlevey travels from Pennsylvania hospitals, where nurses are building a new kind of patient-centered unionism, to Silicon Valley, where tech workers have turned to old-fashioned collective action, to the battle being waged by America’s teachers, readers have a ringside seat at the struggles that will shape our country—and our future.

Author : Jane McAlevey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780190624712

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No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey Pdf

"An examination of strategies for effective organizing"--

Author : Leo Wolman
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0405076150

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The Growth of American Trade Unions, 1880-1923 by Leo Wolman Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Skripak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997920114

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Fundamentals of Business (black and White) by Stephen J. Skripak Pdf

(Black & White version) Fundamentals of Business was created for Virginia Tech's MGT 1104 Foundations of Business through a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries. This book is freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 It is licensed with a Creative Commons-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264872004

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Does Inequality Matter? How People Perceive Economic Disparities and Social Mobility by OECD Pdf

The recovery after the COVID-19 crisis requires policies and reforms that tackle inequalities and promote equal opportunities. However, the implementation of such reforms requires widespread support from the public. To better understand what factors drive public support, this report provides a detailed cross-country analysis of people’s perceptions of and concern over inequality.

Author : J. Visser,Bernard Ebbinghaus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349655113

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Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 by J. Visser,Bernard Ebbinghaus Pdf

The Societies of Europe is an 8-title series of historical data handbooks and accompanying CD-ROM sets, on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The series is a product of the Mannheim Centre for Social research, a body dedicated to comparative research on Europe and one of the leading social research institutes in the world. It is a collection of datasets giving a clear and systematic study of long term developments in European society. The data is presented statistically and is clearly comparative. The Societies of Europe is the most comprehensive data series available on Western European social issues. Each book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing data sets not included in the text enabling users to manipulate the data as wanted. Information is available in different programmes (Excel, SPSS and SAS) and in data structures for analysis, viewing and building time series. This comparative data handbook offers an empirical base to a long-term and comparative understanding of changes and variations in European union movements. It provides information on the context and history of union development, the changes in the structure of post-war unionism until today, the long-term trends in union membership and union density, and the shifts in the cross-sectional composition of union membership. This book and CD-ROM are the result of many years of research by the authors in collaboration with an international research team, and provides an original source for comparative and national studies or individual enquiries. The country and comparative tables offer cross-checked and often newly-calculated statistics on national union organizations and their membership series. The CD-ROM includes selected tables from the handbook and provides additional databases with organizational data and membership series of major national and European union organizations.