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The anthropology of labor unions /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-, Reichart, Karaleah S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2010]
Subjects:
Labor unions > History.
Labor unions > Political activity > History.
Labor unions > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah Reichart
  • Miners, women, and community coalitions in the UMWA Pittston Strike / Karaleah Reichart
  • Is this what democracy looks like? / E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem
  • With God on everyone's side : truth telling and toxic words among Methodists and organized farmworkers in North Carolina / Sandi Smith-Nonini
  • Buying out the union : jobs as property and the UAW / Peter Richardson
  • Approaching industrial democracy in nonunion mines : lessons from Wyoming's Powder River basin / Jessica M. Smith
  • Small places, close to home : the importance of place in organizing workers / Lydia Savage
  • Economic globalization and changing capital-labor relations in Baja California's fresh-produce industry / Christian Zlolniski
  • The tobacco trap : obstacles to trade unionism in Malawi / Marty Otañez
  • Concluding thoughts / Karen Brodkin
  • Afterword / E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah Reichart.