American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century

Name: American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century
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ISBN-10: 080187078X
ISBN-13: 9780801870781
Series: American Workers, American Unions
Category: Labor-unions
Pages: 292
Language: English
Published: 2002
Publisher: JHU Press
Authors: Robert H. Zieger, Gilbert J. Gall

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Highly acclaimed and widely read, American Workers, American Unions (first published in 1986, revised ed. 1994) provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in twentieth-century America. This new edition features new chapters on the pre–1920 period, as well as an entirely new final chapter that covers developments of the 1980s and 1990s in detail. There the authors explore how economic change, union stagnation, and antilabor policies have combined to erode workers' standards and labor's influence in the political arena over the last two decades. They review current "alternatives to unionism" as means of achieving fair workplace representations but insist that strong unions remain essential in a democratic society. They argue that labor's new responsiveness to the concerns of women, minority groups, and low-wage workers, as well as its resurgent political activism, offer new hope for trade unionism. Also included in this third edition is new bibliographical material and a regularly updated on-line link to an extended bibliographical essay.

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American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
- 2014-05-15
- 352 pages
- Ebook
- JHU Press
American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
- 2014-05-15
- 334 pages
- Paperback
- JHU Press
American Workers, American Unions
- 1994
- 244 pages
- Paperback
- Johns Hopkins University Press

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