Union booms and busts : the ongoing fight over the U.S. labor movement /
"Union Booms and Busts takes a bird's-eye view of the shifting fortunes of U.S. workers and their unions, on the one hand, and employers and their organizations, on the other. Using newly assembled and detailed data, it analyses union density across eleven industries and 115 years, demonst...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Union Booms and Busts takes a bird's-eye view of the shifting fortunes of U.S. workers and their unions, on the one hand, and employers and their organizations, on the other. Using newly assembled and detailed data, it analyses union density across eleven industries and 115 years, demonstrating that workers in some industries and some time periods were remarkably successful in forming and defending unions, while others were not. Union Booms and Busts traces the approaches that workers used, including organizing strategies, strikes, and union elections, as well as those of employers, including disrupting union organizing by using legal maneuvers, workforce-based strategies, and race and gender divisions. Chapters are organized around time periods--the early unregulated period where unions took hold in only a handful of industries; the mid-century regulated period where strikes, elections, and union density grew in many industries; and the later dis-regulated period where union trajectories diverged, with union density drastically declining in most industries and holding steady in a few. Each chapter begins with a depiction of the economic, legal, and political context of the time as well as important historical trajectories. The book concludes by suggesting what might come next for workers and unions in America"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197539873 0197539874 9780197539880 0197539882 9780197539866 0197539866 |