Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds - Local Solidarity in a Global Economy

Klappentext Lowell Turner is Professor of International and Comparative Labor! School of Industrial and Labor Relations! Cornell University. He is the author of Democracy at Work and Fighting for Partnership and coeditor of Rekindling the Movement: Labor's Search for Relevance in the 21st Century! all from Cornell. Daniel B. Cornfield is Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and editor of Work and Occupations. He is the author of Becoming a Mighty Voice: Conflict and Change in the United Furniture Workers of America and editor or coeditor of several books! including Labor Revitalization: Global Perspectives and New Initiatives. Peter Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California! Berkeley. He is the author of Embedded Autonomy! editor of Livable Cities?! and coeditor of Bringing the State Back In. Zusammenfassung Introducing the role of urban social context in the field of labor revitalization, this book features global case studies in which strong coalitions have enabled new union influence as well as those in which such coalition building has been thwarted.

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• Authors: Lowell (EDT)/ Cornfield Turner, Lowell Cornfield Turner
• Assisted by: Daniel B. Cornfield (Editor), Lowell Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2007
• EAN: 9780801473609
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7360-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series; Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectu; Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series; Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectu
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries