Reigniting the Labor Movement - Couverture souple

Friedman, Gerald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415780012 ISBN 13 : 9780415780018

Editeur : Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement's achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earliest days of the labor movement, activists have debated the appropriate strategy, the mix of revolutionary and reformist goals and the proper relationship between labor unions and broader social and political movements. So long as the labor movement was growing, moving from gain to gain, debates over strategy could remain abstract, safely confined to academic quarters. Decline and impending failure, however, have now made these urgent debates.

Written in a readable style, this book uses information from sixteen countries including the UK, US, Germany and France to chart the fortunes of the labor movement over recent years. The author, based at one of the top centres for heterodox economics, examines the current debates over strategy and suggests ways of reigniting its fortunes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gerald Friedman is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415780012
• ISBN 13: 9780415780018
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
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• Personne responsable: non disponible