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An injury to all : the decline of American unionism

By Kim , Moody

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
1992
ISBN
978-0-86091-216-3, 0860912167, 978-0-86091-929-2, 0860919293, 978-1-78478-783-7, 978-1-78478-782-0, 304-000-243-0
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2379705 bytes)
Series
The Haymarket series
Edition
Repr
Pages
376\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th c

Description

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions in the face of a domestic right turn and an epochal shift to globalized production. Eschewing alliances with new social forces in favor of its old Cold War liaisons and illusory compacts with big business, the AFL-CIO under George Meany and Lane Kirkland has been forced to surrender many of its post-war gains. With extraordinary attention to the viewpoints of rank-and-file workers, Moody chronicles the major, but largely unreported, efforts of labor’s grassroots to find its way out of the crisis. In case studies of auto, steel, meatpacking and trucking, he traces the rise of “anti-concession” movements and in other case studies...

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