Linda Markowitz

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how different levels of worker participation during a union organizing campaign influence the perceptions and actions of those same workers after the campaign ends, and, thereby, the long-term effectiveness and success of the organizing effort. Drawing on historical and current examples, the author analyzes the political and economic contexts within which today's unions are organizing, including a detailed examination of the impact of the Wagner Act.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780765604927
• ISBN-10: 0765604922
• Artikelnr.: 22090233

Autorenporträt

Linda Markowitz

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction After the Organizing Ends
Chapter 1 Historical Challenges and Contemporary Innovations
Chapter 2 Participatory Democracy: Its Possibilities and Consequences
Chapter 3 Conflict and Cohesion: Worker Activism Before the Organizing Campaigns
Chapter 4 The Organizing Campaigns at Bob's Grocery Stores and Geofelt Manufacturing
Chapter 5 Building Union Frameworks
Chapter 6 The Contract Period and Beyond: Activism and Efficacy Among Workers
concl Conclusion Organizing as Process: Is Participation the Solution?