Rebuilding labor : organizing and organizers in the new union movement
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Rebuilding labor : organizing and organizers in the new union movement
（An ILR press book）
Cornell University Press, 2004
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-293) and index
"The chapters in this book were first presented at a conference organized by the editors under the auspices of the University of California's Institute for Labor and Employment, held at UCLA on May 17, 2001"--p. 15
Contents of Works
- Changing to organize : a national assessment of union strategies / Kate Bronfenbrenner and Robert Hickey
- Union democracy and successful campaigns : the dynamics of staff authority and worker participation in an organizing union / Teresa Sharpe
- Workers against unions : union organizing and anti-union countermobilizations / Robert A. Penney
- Overcoming legacies of business unionism : why grassroots organizing tactics succeed / Steven H. Lopez
- "Justice for janitors," not "compensation for custodians" : the political context and organizing in San Jose and Sacramento / Preston Rudy
- Against the tide : projects and pathways of the new generation of union leaders, 1984-2001 / Marshall Ganz ... [et al.]
- Sticking it out or packing it in? : organizer retention in the new labor movement / Daisy Rooks
- "Outsiders" inside the labor movement : an examination of youth involvement in the 1996 Union Summer program / Leslie Bunnage and Judith Stepan-Norris
- Unionism in California and the United States : using representation elections to evaluate its impact on business establishments / John Dinardo and David S. Lee
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"In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power, unions must fundamentally alter their internal organizational practices. This means creating more organizer positions on the staff; developing programs to teach current members how to handle the tasks involved in resolving shop-floor grievances; and building programs that train members to participate fully in the work of external organizing. Such a reorientation entails redefining the very meaning of union membership from a relatively passive stance toward one of continuous active engagement."-from the Introduction In Rebuilding Labor Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss bring together established researchers and a new generation of labor scholars to assess the current state of labor organizing and its relationship to union revitalization. Throughout this collection, the focus is on the formidable challenges unions face today and on how they may be overcome. Rebuilding Labor begins with a comprehensive overview of recent union organizing in the United States; goes on to present a series of richly detailed case studies of such topics as union leadership, organizer recruitment and retention, union democracy, and the dynamics of anti-unionism among rank-and-file workers; and concludes with a quantitative chapter on the relationship between union victories and establishment survival. This interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on New Labor offers a window into an otherwise invisible emergent social movement.
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