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Category : Strikes and lockouts
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Analysis of Work Stoppages, 1969
Author: Analysis of Work Stoppages, 1970
Author: Work Stoppages Caused by Labor-management Disputes
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Strikes and lockouts
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: Analysis of Work Stoppages, 1971
Author: Publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: Personnel Bibliography Series
Author: United States Civil Service Commission. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Author: The Era Was Lost
Author: Glenn DyerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469682079
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and 1975. Rank-and-file members of numerous unions caught a "strike fever" as they challenged the entrenched power of some of the country's most powerful politicians, employers, and union leaders in a wave of contract rejections, wildcat strikes, and electoral campaigns. Workers in unions across New York wanted more than better contracts: they contested control of the work process, racism on the job, and workers' place in America's socioeconomic hierarchy while implicitly and explicitly demanding greater democratic control of their representative organizations. Some initial challenges were effective and succeeded in delivering better contracts and unseating undemocratic leaders. However, those early successes were short-lived. Glenn Dyer traces the way workers were met with employer recalcitrance and union attacks that proved too powerful to organize against. In the face of this resistance, workers retreated into a survivalist attitude of accommodation and resignation, contributing to the decline of social democratic New York and working-class power in the city. Ultimately, Dyer argues, the failures of the rank-and-file organizing efforts in New York City, which was the biggest center of organized labor in the country, shows how stunted workers' aspirations and numerous defeats not only uprooted the foundations of New York's uniquely social democratic polity but also ushered in a national era of increased working-class subservience that has resonance today.
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Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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