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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Official Yearbook of the Organized Labor Movement of Los Angeles and Vicinity
Author: Official Yearbook of Organized Labor
Author: Federated Trades and Labor Council (Humboldt County, Calif.)Publisher:
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Category : Humboldt County (Calif.)
Languages : en
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A History of the Los Angeles Labor Movement, 1911-1941
Author: Louis B. PerryPublisher: Univ of California Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles
Author: Grace Heilman StimsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349369
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Labor Yearbook
Author: L.A. Story
Author: Ruth MilkmanPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610443969
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Sharp decreases in union membership over the last fifty years have caused many to dismiss organized labor as irrelevant in today's labor market. In the private sector, only 8 percent of workers today are union members, down from 24 percent as recently as 1973. Yet developments in Southern California—including the successful Justice for Janitors campaign—suggest that reports of organized labor's demise may have been exaggerated. In L.A. Story, sociologist and labor expert Ruth Milkman explains how Los Angeles, once known as a company town hostile to labor, became a hotbed for unionism, and how immigrant service workers emerged as the unlikely leaders in the battle for workers' rights. L.A. Story shatters many of the myths of modern labor with a close look at workers in four industries in Los Angeles: building maintenance, trucking, construction, and garment production. Though many blame deunionization and deteriorating working conditions on immigrants, Milkman shows that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Her analysis reveals that worsening work environments preceded the influx of foreign-born workers, who filled the positions only after native-born workers fled these suddenly undesirable jobs. Ironically, L.A. Story shows that immigrant workers, who many union leaders feared were incapable of being organized because of language constraints and fear of deportation, instead proved highly responsive to organizing efforts. As Milkman demonstrates, these mostly Latino workers came to their service jobs in the United States with a more group-oriented mentality than the American workers they replaced. Some also drew on experience in their native countries with labor and political struggles. This stock of fresh minds and new ideas, along with a physical distance from the east-coast centers of labor's old guard, made Los Angeles the center of a burgeoning workers' rights movement. Los Angeles' recent labor history highlights some of the key ingredients of the labor movement's resurgence—new leadership, latitude to experiment with organizing techniques, and a willingness to embrace both top-down and bottom-up strategies. L.A. Story's clear and thorough assessment of these developments points to an alternative, high-road national economic agenda that could provide workers with a way out of poverty and into the middle class.
Official State Year Book of Organized Labor
Author: Idaho State Federation of LaborPublisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The American Labor Year Book, 1916
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Category : Labor and labouring classes
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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