| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 257 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-242) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; ONE A Future for the American Labor Movement?; TWO Industrial Relations in a Time of Change; THREE A Survey of American Union Strategies; FOUR The Old Reformist Unionism: The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor; FIVE The New Reformist Unionism: CAFE; SIX A New Version of an Old Reformist Strategy: Employee Ownership; SEVEN Social Democratic Unionism in Action: Strategies of European Trade Unions; EIGHT A New Twist and TURN on Social Democratic Unionism: Unions and Regional Economic Development. |
| Summary |
This book analyzes strategies for American labor's survival in today's world economy. In the US and Europe, labor is experimenting with an arsenal of strategies. These include worker ownership and other ideas drawn from the nineteenth-century Knights of Labor, with new ideas such as strategic use of labor's capital. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Labor movement -- United States -- Forecasting.
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Labor movement. |
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United States. |
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Forecasting. |
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Labor policy -- United States -- Forecasting.
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Labor policy. |
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Labor unions -- United States -- Forecasting.
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Labor unions. |
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Employment forecasting -- United States.
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Employment forecasting. |
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasting.
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasting. |
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Twenty-first century. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wheeler, Hoyt N. Future of the American labor movement. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2002073770 |
| ISBN |
0511148747 |
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9780511148743 |
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0511045751 |
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9780511045752 |
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0511120710 (electronic book) |
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9780511120718 (electronic book) |
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9780521893541 (paperback) |
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0521893542 (paperback) |
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9780521815338 (hardback) |
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0521815339 (hardback) |
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0511042574 (electronic book) |
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9780511042577 (electronic book) |
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0521815339 |
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0521893542 (paperback) |
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