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1 online resource (192 pages) |
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Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he asserts that this death has been a long time coming ' the organizing principles chosen by the labor movement at midcentury have come back to haunt the movement today. In an expansive survey of new initiatives, strikes, organizations and allies Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor's renewal, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers' movement. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Argues that the labor movement as it has been known for most of the last one hundred years is effectively dead, and analyzes the possibilities of labor's renewal by looking at new initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies. |
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"Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he asserts that this death has been a long time coming--the organizing principles chosen by the labor movement at midcentury have come back to haunt the movement today. In an expansive survey of new initiatives, strikes, organizations and allies Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor's renewal, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers' movement"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index. |
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| Subject |
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Labor -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Political science.
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Political science. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Aronowitz, Stanley. Death and life of American labor 9781781681381 (DLC) 2014018867 (OCoLC)880521080 |
| ISBN |
9781781681947 : $54.95 |
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1781681945 : $54.95 |
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