American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century (The American Moment)
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080187078X
ISBN13:9780801870781
Release Date:December 2002
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is by far my favorite single-volume book of labor history. It's a well-researched, balanced survey of the 20th century, scholarly yet highly readable. I have assigned it as initial reading in graduate-level labor relations courses to lay a historical foundation, and students have given postive feedback on the book (mirroring my comments above).
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