Unions and Communities under Siege
Subtitle: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor (Cambridge Human Geography)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780521025836
Subjects: Trade unions; Politics / Current Events; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Human Geography; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Industrial relations--United States; Industrial relations--United States Industria; Social Science / Human Geography; Social Science-Human Geography; Politics - Current Events; Case studies; Industrial relations; Jurisdictional disputes; Labor laws and legislation; Labor unions; United States
First sentence: In an era predicted by some to be the mature, growth-consolidation phase of industrial unionism (Lester 1958), the United States labor movement is fighting for its survival.