Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice
- ISBN-10
- 0520261569
- ISBN-13
- 9780520261563
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-10-19
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Bill Fletcher, Fernando Gapasin
Description
The US trade union movement finds itself on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, this text is a critical examination of labour's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the 21st century.
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