Knocking on Labor’s Door (eBook)

Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide

Lane Windham (Autor)

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2017
312 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469632087 (ISBN)

Infos

The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different story. Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and southerners, Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools--like unions and labor law--with legislative gains from the civil and women's rights movements to help shore up their prospects. Through close-up studies of workers' campaigns in shipbuilding, textiles, retail, and service, Windham overturns widely held myths about labor's decline, showing instead how employers united to manipulate weak labor law and quash a new wave of worker organizing.Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming odds, Knocking on Labor's Door dramatically refashions the narrative of working-class struggle during a crucial decade and shakes up current debates about labor's future. Windham's story inspires both hope and indignation, and will become a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women's history.

Autor

Lane Windham is Associate Director of Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and co-director of WILL Empower (Women Innovating Labor Leadership).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones, 6 figs., 1 table, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: 1964 Civil Rights Act • 1970s • 9to5 • AFL-CIO • african-american women • Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) • Cannon Mills • Civil Rights • collective bargaining • economic and social justice • Economic Inequality • Labor Movement • Labor Unions • labor unions in the South • National Labor Relations Board • newport news • private-sector union organizing • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 925 • Social Welfare • Solidarity Day • Textile Workers International Union (TWIU) • union organizing • United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) • United Steelworkers (USWA) • Women’s rights • Woodward & Lothrop • Woodward and Lothrop • working class in the 1970s
• ISBN-13: 9781469632087 / 9781469632087