The Labour Movement
Author: Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
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A New American Labor Movement
Author: William E. Scheuerman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1438485506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheuerman analyzes how the decline of unions and the emergence of these new direct-action movements are reshaping the American labor movement. Tens of thousands of exploited workers—from farm laborers and gig drivers to freelance artists and restaurant workers—have taken to the streets in a collective attempt to attain a living wage and decent working conditions, with or without the help of unions. This new worker militancy, expressed through mass demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, political action, and similar activities, has already achieved much success and offers models for workers to exercise their power in the twenty-first century. Finally, Scheuerman notes, many of the strategies of the new direct-action groups share features with the sectoral bargaining model that dominates the European labor movement, suggesting that sectoral bargaining may become the foundation of a new American labor movement.
Organized Labor...
Author: Samuel Gompers
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Labour Movement in Lebanon
Author: Lea Bou Khater
Publisher:
Published: 2024-06-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781526178954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPower on hold examines the course of the labour movement in Lebanon since independence in 1943, giving specific attention to the role of state incorporation in the preservation of the sectarian-liberal system.
Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
Author: William E. Forbath
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0674037081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.
Rethinking the American Labor Movement
Author: Elizabeth Faue
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1136175512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the "labor movement." While the efforts of the American labor force towards greater wealth parity have been rife with contention, the struggle has embraced a broad vision of a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and a desire for workers to have greater control over their own lives. In this succinct and authoritative volume, Elizabeth Faue reconsiders the varied strains of the labor movement, situating them within the context of rapidly transforming twentieth-century American society to show how these efforts have formed a political and social movement that has shaped the trajectory of American life. Rethinking the American Labor Movement is indispensable reading for scholars and students interested in American labor in the twentieth century and in the interplay between labor, wealth, and power.
Reigniting the Labor Movement
Author: Gerald Friedman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-10-04
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1135985839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLabor's democratic dilemmas -- Has the forward march of labor halted? -- Labor's liberty is a social product -- How unions grew and why they stopped -- Explaining the inexplicable : accounting for the madness of moments -- When workers win : dilemmas of success -- The limits of social democracy : did success kill the labor movement? -- Reigniting the labor movement : restoring means to ends.
Labor Movements
Author: Stephanie Luce
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0745682391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration, can unions still play a role in raising wages and improving work conditions? This book provides a critical evaluation of labor unions both in the U.S. and globally, examining the factors that have led to the decline of union power and arguing that, despite their challenges, unions still have a vital part to play in the global economy. Stephanie Luce explores the potential sources of power that unions might have, and emerging new strategies and directions for the growth of global labor movements, such as unions, worker centers, informal sector organizations, and worker co-operatives, helping workers resist the impacts of neoliberalism. She shows that unions may in fact be more relevant now than ever. This important assessment of labor movements in the global economy will be required reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of labor studies, political and economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social movements.
Hard Work
Author: Rick Fantasia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-06-16
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0520240901
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The Labour Movement in the Global South
Author: S. Janaka Biyanwila
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-18
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1136904255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka. The author identifies key dimensions of variation in the approaches taken by oppositional groupings, in particular unions, other labour organisations and the labour movement, and locates those variations in a larger theoretical context. Three case studies on trade unions in tea plantations, garment factories and among the nurses show how these theoretical dimensions operate in practice, and the consequences for the sort of opposition that is (and is not) created. The book contributes to the on-going debate on social movement unionism, and it also reveals their gaps in terms of addressing how class injustices are mediated through ethno-nationalist projects reproducing ethnic and gender hierarchies. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences and forms of resistance in the global South and critically engages with issues of gender, ethnicity and labour internationalism, providing a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics as well as Labour and Development Studies.
