From the ashes of the old : American labor and America's future / Stanley Aronowitz
- Bib ID:
- 729822
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- Author:
- Aronowitz, Stanley
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- Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998
- x, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0395881323
- Summary:
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"Corporate downsizing, technological change, mergers, and acquisitions have cut the workforce by half in some industries; in others, the best-paid employees have lost their jobs and have been replaced by part-time, temporary workers who often lack benefits. Meanwhile, government protections are slowly fading from the lives of ordinary Americans as health benefits, pensions, and safety and health standards deteriorate."--BOOK JACKET.
"Stanley Aronowitz, a teacher, writer, and former trade union organizer, examines the decline of the labor movement in the past twenty-five years and its recent reemergence as a major force in the country's economic and political life. Republicans suddenly find themselves under attack from a forgotten foe. Democrats are shocked to see this ghost walking about, compelling the party to fight for a minimum-wage law it had practically abandoned. The labor movement, once given up for dead, is now the engine of economic democracy and progressive politics. But to succeed, Aronowitz argues, labor must return to the social-movement unionism of Eugene Debs and Walter Reuther. Such an energetic new movement is the key to America's future."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Riding the Wave of Postwar Properity
- 2. The Rise and Crisis of Public Employees' Unions
- 3. The South, Labor, and American Political Culture
- 4. The Working Poor: Raising the Bottom
- 5. White-Collar Workers: Seeds of Hope?
- 6. Professionals and Managers: Labor's New Frontier
- 7. Labor and American Politics
- 8. American Labor and America's Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-230) and index.
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