Unions and Communities Under Siege - American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor

Zusammenfassung The essential argument of this book is that the current crisis of US unions ought to be considered in terms of the local context of labor-management relations; that is! the communities in which men and women live and work. Whether by design or necessity! the structure of New Deal national labor legislation has sustained! and maintained! distinctive local labor-management practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Economy and Community: 1. Crisis of organized labor; 2. Understanding union growth and decline; Part II. Drama of Economic Restructuring: 3. Communities and corporate location strategies; 4. Rationing jobs within the union, between communities; Part III. Union Performance in Representation Elections: 5. Democracy in the guise of representation elections; 6. Organizing strategies in the heartland and the South; 7. At the margin of the rules of the game; Part IV. Regulating Local Labor-Management Relations: 8. Integrity of the National Labor Relations Board; 9. Options for restructuring the US economy; Part V. Prospects For Organized Labor: 10. Republicans, democrats, and the southern veto; 11. Employment contracts without unions; 12. Unions and communities unarmed; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Gordon L. Clark, Clark Gordon L., Clark Gordon L.
• Assisted by: Brian Robson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521025836
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02583-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Human Geography; Cambridge Human Geography
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, United States of America, USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions