| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Labor Day in America -- Worlds of work: economy and civil society. The industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder -- Detroit: labor and community -- A "daily miracle": the life of the workplace -- The institutional regulation of labor. Proper channels: U.S. labor law and union-management relations -- The path to confrontation: the newspapers' joint operating agreement in Detroit -- Extraordinary measures: planning for war -- War of position: the 1995 contract negotiations -- The spaces of conflict. Worlds collide: the start of the strike -- Law and violence: permanent replacements and the control of collective action -- Theaters of engagement: state and civil society -- Waiting for justice: the return to work and the end of the strike -- Governing the workplace: American labor today. Conclusion: a signal juncture. |
| Summary |
"In The Broken Table, Chris Rhomberg sees the Detroit strike as a historic collision of two opposing forces: a system in place since the New Deal governing disputes between labor and management and decades of increasingly aggressive corporate efforts to eliminate unions."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knight-Ridder (Firm)
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Knight-Ridder (Firm) |
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Gannett Company.
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Gannett Company. |
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Newspaper Strike, Detroit, Michigan, 1995-2000.
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Newspaper Strike (Detroit, Michigan : 1995-2000) |
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Collective bargaining -- Newspapers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Collective bargaining -- Newspapers. |
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Michigan -- Detroit. |
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Newspaper employees -- Labor unions -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Newspaper employees -- Labor unions. |
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Strikes and lockouts -- Newspapers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Strikes and lockouts -- Newspapers. |
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Newspaper publishing -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Newspaper publishing. |
| Chronological Term |
1995-2000 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The broken table 9780871547170 (pbk. : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011053536 |
| ISBN |
9780871547170 paperback : alkaline paper |
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9781610447751 ebook |
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1610447751 |
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9781610447751 |
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0871547171 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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