
Reigniting the Labor Movement
Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor Movement
Gerald Friedman(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2007
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-415-77071-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 earliest days of the labor movement, activists have debated the appropriate strategy, the mix of revolutionary and reformist goals and the proper relationship between labor unions and broader social and political movements. So long as the labor movement was growing, moving from gain to gain, debates over strategy could remain abstract, safely confined to academic quarters. Decline and impending failure, however, have now made these urgent debates.
Written in a readable style, this book uses information from sixteen countries including the UK, US, Germany and France to chart the fortunes of the labor movement over recent years. The author, based at one of the top centres for heterodox economics, examines the current debates over strategy and suggests ways of reigniting its fortunes.
Written in a readable style, this book uses information from sixteen countries including the UK, US, Germany and France to chart the fortunes of the labor movement over recent years. The author, based at one of the top centres for heterodox economics, examines the current debates over strategy and suggests ways of reigniting its fortunes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
12 s/w Abbildungen, 12 s/w Zeichnungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-77071-2 (9780415770712)
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Person
Gerald Friedman is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Content
1. The Rise of the Labor Movement 2. Dimensions of Decline 3. Explaining Growth to Explain Decline 4. Explaining Growth Spurts 5. Why did Growth Stop? 6. Growth Dialectics 7. Can Growth be Restarted?