The Era Was Lost: The Rise and Fall of New York City’s Rank-and-File Rebels - Couverture rigide

Dyer, Glenn

 
9781469682051: The Era Was Lost: The Rise and Fall of New York City’s Rank-and-File Rebels
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ISBN 10 : 1469682052 ISBN 13 : 9781469682051
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024

Synopsis

An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and 1975. Rank-and-file members of numerous unions caught a ""strike fever"" as they challenged the entrenched power of some of the country's most powerful politicians, employers, and union leaders in a wave contract rejections, wildcat strikes, and electoral campaigns.

Workers in unions across New York wanted more than better contracts: they contested control of the work process, racism on the job, and workers' place in America's socioeconomic hierarchy while implicitly and explicitly demanding greater democratic control of their representative organizations and lives. Some initial challenges were effective and succeeded in delivering better contracts and unseating undemocratic leaders. However, those early successes were short-lived. Glenn Dyer traces the way workers were met with employer recalcitrance and union attacks that proved too powerful to organize against. In the face of this resistance, workers retreated into a survivalist attitude of accommodation and resignation, contributing to the decline of social democratic New York and working-class power in the city. Ultimately, as Dyer argues, the failures of the rank-and-file organizing efforts in New York City, which was the biggest center of organized labor in the country, shows how stunted workers' aspirations and numerous defeats not only uprooted the foundations of New York's uniquely social democratic polity but also ushered in a national era of increased working-class subservience that has resonance today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Glenn Dyer is limited term assistant professor of history and philosophy at Kennesaw State University.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469682052
ISBN 13 
9781469682051
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1469682060 ISBN 13 :  9781469682068
Editeur : Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2024
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