Save our unions : dispatches from a movement in distress /
Early, Steve,
Save our unions : dispatches from a movement in distress / by Steve Early. - 1 online resource (343 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Rebels with a cause -- pt. 2. Striking back or striking out -- pt. 3. Organizing for the long haul -- pt. 4. Labor's health care muddle -- pt. 5. Telecom labor troubles -- pt. 6. Is there a leader in the house? -- pt. 7. Two, three, many Vermonts!
"Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform"--
9781583674307 (electronic bk.) 1583674306 (electronic bk.)
8B8B10E2-E1CA-49B3-88D6-975AA44E5D58 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt8jwrtz JSTOR
Labor unions--United States.
Labor--United States.
Industrial relations--United States.
Strikes and lockouts--United States.
Travail--États-Unis.
Relations industrielles--États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Labor.
Industrial relations.
Labor.
Labor unions.
Strikes and lockouts.
Gewerkschaft
Arbeitsbeziehungen
Streik
United States.
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD6508 / .E343 2013eb
331.880973
Save our unions : dispatches from a movement in distress / by Steve Early. - 1 online resource (343 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Rebels with a cause -- pt. 2. Striking back or striking out -- pt. 3. Organizing for the long haul -- pt. 4. Labor's health care muddle -- pt. 5. Telecom labor troubles -- pt. 6. Is there a leader in the house? -- pt. 7. Two, three, many Vermonts!
"Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform"--
9781583674307 (electronic bk.) 1583674306 (electronic bk.)
8B8B10E2-E1CA-49B3-88D6-975AA44E5D58 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt8jwrtz JSTOR
Labor unions--United States.
Labor--United States.
Industrial relations--United States.
Strikes and lockouts--United States.
Travail--États-Unis.
Relations industrielles--États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Labor.
Industrial relations.
Labor.
Labor unions.
Strikes and lockouts.
Gewerkschaft
Arbeitsbeziehungen
Streik
United States.
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD6508 / .E343 2013eb
331.880973