1st Edition
Reigniting the Labor Movement Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor Movement
By Gerald Friedman
Copyright 2008
216 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement’s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earliest days of the labor movement, activists have... Read more
1. The Rise of the Labor Movement2. Dimensions of Decline3. Explaining Growth to Explain Decline4. Explaining Growth Spurts5. Why did Growth Stop?6. Growth Dialectics7. Can Growth be Restarted?
Biography
Gerald Friedman
