The Next Upsurge

The Next Upsurge

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  • Author: Dan Clawson
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 1501722573
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 251

The U.S. labor movement may be on the verge of massive growth, according to Dan Clawson. He argues that unions don't grow slowly and incrementally, but rather in bursts. Even if the AFL-CIO could organize twice as many members per year as it now does, it would take thirty years to return to the levels of union membership that existed when Ronald Reagan was elected president. In contrast, labor membership more than quadrupled in the years from 1934 to 1945. For there to be a new upsurge, Clawson asserts, labor must fuse with social movements concerned with race, gender, and global justice.The new forms may create a labor movement that breaks down the boundaries between "union" and "community" or between work and family issues. Clawson finds that this is already happening in some parts of the labor movement: labor has endorsed global justice and opposed war in Iraq, student activists combat sweatshops, unions struggle for immigrant rights. Innovative campaigns of this sort, Clawson shows, create new strategies—determined by workers rather than union organizers—that redefine the very meaning of the labor movement. The Next Upsurge presents a range of examples from attempts to replace "macho" unions with more feminist models to campaigns linking labor and community issues and attempts to establish cross-border solidarity and a living wage.


US Labor in Trouble and Transition

US Labor in Trouble and Transition

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  • Author: Kim Moody
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • ISBN: 1789603374
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 282

US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s. Looking to the future, Moody shows how the rise of immigrant labor and its efforts at self-organization can re-energize the unions from below. US Labor in Trouble and Transition is a major intervention in the ongoing debate within the US labor movement.


Lenin Rediscovered

Lenin Rediscovered

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  • Author: Lars T. Lih
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9047417879
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 887

This commentary to Lenin’s landmark What is to be Done? (1902) provides hitherto unavailable contextual information about Lenin’s outlook and aims that undermines previous interpretations. It challenges established views about Marxism, ‘revolutionary Social Democracy’ and Bolshevism.


Suburban Sweatshops

Suburban Sweatshops

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  • Author: Jennifer Gordon
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 0674263928
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 382

Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all; her employer lied about establishing a savings account for her. We live in an era of the sweatshop reborn. In 1992 Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island, New York. In a story of gritty determination and surprising hope, she weaves together Latino immigrant life and legal activism to tell the unexpected tale of how the most vulnerable workers in society came together to demand fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect from employers. Immigrant workers--many undocumented--won a series of remarkable victories, including a raise of thirty percent for day laborers and a domestic workers' bill of rights. In the process, they transformed themselves into effective political participants. Gordon neither ignores the obstacles faced by such grassroots organizations nor underestimates their very real potential for fundamental change. This revelatory work challenges widely held beliefs about the powerlessness of immigrant workers, what a union should be, and what constitutes effective lawyering. It opens up exciting new possibilities for labor organizing, community building, participatory democracy, legal strategies, and social justice.


Reorganizing the Rust Belt

Reorganizing the Rust Belt

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  • Author: Steven Henry Lopez
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 0520235657
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316

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The Long Wave in the World Economy

The Long Wave in the World Economy

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  • Author: Andrew Tylecote
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415036900
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

This book not only makes a major contribution to the theoretical literature on long waves, it provides a coherent analysis of the present state of the world economy by bringing together labour, trade and industrial relations.


First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship

First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship

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  • Author: Richard Lachmann
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • ISBN: 1788734076
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 497

Why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance, and contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands' similarly short primacy and Britain's far longer era of leadership. Decline in all those cases was not inevitable and did not respond to global capitalist cycles. Rather, decline is the product of elites' success in grabbing control over resources and governmental powers. Not only are ordinary people harmed, but also capitalists become increasingly unable to coordinate their interests and adopt policies and make investments necessary to counter economic and geopolitical competitors elsewhere in the world. Conflicts among elites and challenges by non-elites determine the timing and mold the contours of decline. Lachmann traces the transformation of US politics from an era of elite consensus to present-day paralysis combined with neoliberal plunder, explains the paradox of an American military with an unprecedented technological edge unable to subdue even the weakest enemies, and the consequences of finance's cannibalization of the US economy.


The System

The System

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  • Author: Robert B. Reich
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0525659056
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change. There is a mounting sense that our political-economic system is no longer working, but what is the core problem and how do we remedy it? With the characteristic clarity and passion that have made him a central civil voice, bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good Robert B. Reich shows how wealth and power have combined to install an oligarchy and undermine democracy. Reich exposes the myths of meritocracy, national competitiveness, corporate social responsibility, the “free market,” and the political “center,” all of which are used by those at the top to divert attention from their takeover of the system and to justify their accumulation of even more wealth and power. In demystifying the current system, Reich reveals where power actually lies and how it is wielded, and invites us to reclaim power and remake the system for all.


Trade Union Revitalisation

Trade Union Revitalisation

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  • Author: Craig Phelan
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9783039110094
  • Category : Labor unions
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 588

A comprehensive introduction to the state of trade unionism in the world today. Leading labour scholars discuss the health of the trade union movement, the present political and economic climate for trade union advancement, the dominant revitalisation strategies, and future prospects for each nation.


Accumulations, Crises, Struggles

Accumulations, Crises, Struggles

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  • Author: Baris Karaagac
  • Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
  • ISBN: 3643904118
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 301

This is a book about capitalism. To be more specific, it is about the most recent phase or stage of capitalist development, that is, neoliberal globalization. Neoliberalism, as much a political project as an economic one, is still pervasive, and it continues to provide the general framework for politics and political imagination across most of the globe. This volume brings together a group of valuable scholars from different parts of the world looking at the impact of neoliberalism on our societies. And, as such, it aspires to contribute as much to the critique and overcoming of this process as to its analysis. With its extensive coverage, both geographically and thematically, this book will be of interest for students of the social sciences as well as for anyone who makes an effort to understand and change the world in which she lives. Baris Karaagac is a lecturer in the Department of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada.ò