Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada

Informationen zum Autor Barry Eidlin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, Montréal. He is a comparative historical sociologist interested in the study of class, politics, social movements, and social change. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Sociology Compass, and Labor History, among other venues, and has won awards from the American Sociological Association, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. He also comments regularly in various media outlets on labor politics and policy. Klappentext Why are unions weaker in the US than they are in Canada, despite the countries' many similarities? Zusammenfassung This book is aimed at readers who want a better understanding of one of the key drivers of growing economic inequality: union decline. In explaining why Canadian unions remain stronger than their US counterparts! it shows the limits of conventional explanations and presents a novel approach to this perplexing question. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Explaining Union Density Divergence: 1. Structural and individual explanations; 2. Policy explanations; 3. Working class power in the United States and Canada; Part II. Political Articulation and the Class Idea: 4. Party-class alliances in the United States and Canada, 1932-1948; 5. Repression and rebirth: red scares and labor's postwar identity, 1946-1972; 6. Class versus special interest: labor regimes and density divergence, 1911-2016; Appendix A: data; Appendix B: archival sources; Appendix C: permissions.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Eidlin, Barry (Mcgill University Eidlin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107514416
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51441-6
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Trade Unions, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour