Rekindling the Movement: Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century
- ISBN-10
- 1501717189
- ISBN-13
- 9781501717185
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-31
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Authors
- Lowell Turner, Richard W. Hurd, Harry C. Katz
Description
From gloomy times in the 1980s, the American labor movement has returned to apparent prominence through the efforts of a new generation of energetic and progressive leaders. A distinguished group of authors examines this resurgence and the potential of American unions with sympathetic yet critical eyes. Experts from a wide variety of disciplines—industrial relations, political science, economics, and sociology—identify the central developments, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the new initiatives, and assess the progress made and the prospects for the future. Though all agree on the importance of unions, their opinions of the success of current renewal efforts diverge greatly. The interdisciplinary and comparative approach of Rekindling the Movement is both challenging and enlightening. Rather than merely trumpeting pet opinions, contributors provide hard evidence and causal analysis, grounded in realistic perspectives, to back up suggestions for the improvement of the new labor movement. Their straightforward observations about what is and is not possible, what does and does not work, will be of great practical value for policymakers and union leaders.
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- 2001
- 402 pages
- Paperback
- Cornell University Press
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