Forces of Labor
Author | : Beverly J. Silver |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-04-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521520775 |
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Author | : Beverly J. Silver |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-04-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521520775 |
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Author | : Kent Wong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-07-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780892150861 |
This book celebrates the first thirty years of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA), the first national Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) worker organization within the US labor movement. The voices in this book capture the spirit, determination, and commitment of a multiethnic, multigenerational group of AAPI labor activists who built a dynamic organization within the US labor movement to advance worker rights and labor solidarity. Included are founding members, emerging young activists who are charting a new path for AAPIs in labor, and the leaders who are no longer with us but who inspire others to continue their legacy.
Author | : Stanley Aronowitz |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1784783005 |
The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming—the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker. In the ’50s and ’60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness was a landmark in the study of the US working-class and workers’ movements. Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian’s understanding of American workers’ struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor’s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers’ movement.
Author | : George Edwin McNeill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William E. Forbath |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674037081 |
Why 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.
Author | : Jörg Nowak |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786604051 |
While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations. The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across global South and North, provides an account of strikes and working class resistance in the 21st century. Through original case studies, the book looks at the various shades of workers’ movements, analysing different forms of popular organisation as responses to new social and economic conditions, such as restructuring of work and new areas of investment.
Author | : William Arthur Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780901241252 |
Author | : Therese M. Shea |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1538211637 |
Its difficult for many young people to imagine not being able to go to school and instead having to work in a hot, smelly, sometimes dangerous factory for more than 12 hours a day. There was a time in U.S. history when young people had to do just that. Thankfully, many people involved in the labor movement fought against child labor. This was just one of many ways the movement improved rights for working people. This important volume presents a significant slice of American history, using primary sources, first-person narratives, and historical photographs to enlighten readers.