Solidarity Divided : The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice

The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart changes

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Fletcher, Bill Jr
Other Persons:	Gapasin, Fernando (contributor)
Publisher:	Berkeley : University of California Press
Subject:	Gewerkschaft \| Trade union \| Gewerkschaftsbewegung \| Trade union movement \| Soziale Gerechtigkeit \| Social justice \| Gewerkschaftspolitik \| Union behaviour \| Arbeiterbewegung \| Labour movement
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (320 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Change to Win and the Split in the AFL-CIO; PART 1. CHALLENGES FACING THE U.S. LABOR MOVEMENTS; 1. Dukin' It Out; 2. The New Deal; 3. The Cold War on Labor; 4. The Civil Rights Movements, The Left, and Labor; PART 2. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED; 5. Whose Welfare Matters, Anyway?; 6. What's Left For Us?; 7. Organize to Organize the Unorganized; PART 3. SWEENEY'S GRAND GESTURE; 8. The New Voice Coalition Takes Office; 9. Developing Strategy in Times of Change; 10. Globalization; 11. Could'a, Would'a, Should'a 12. International Affairs, Globalization, and 9/11PART 4. WHEN SILENCE ISN'T GOLDEN; 13. Restlessness in the Ranks; 14. Change to Win; 15. Anger, Compromise, and the Paralysis of the Sweeney Coalition; 16. Left Behind; PART 5. THE WAY FORWARD; 17. The Need for Social Justice Unionism; 18. The Need for a Global Outlook; 19. Realizing Social Justice Unionism; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Authors
ISBN:	978-0-520-26156-3 ; 978-0-520-93474-0 ; 978-0-520-26156-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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