Not your father's union movement
Subtitle: inside the AFL-CIO
By: edited by Jo-Ann Mort.
Contributors: Mort, Jo-Ann, 1956-
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: AFL-CIO; Labor unions -- United States.; Women labor union members -- United States -- History.
Table of contents: title: A second chance: the new AFL-CIO and the prospective revival of American labor / Harold Meyerson; title: When we try more, we win more: organizing the new workforce / Richard Bensinger; title: Finding a voice: the AFL-CIO communicates / Jo-Ann Mort; title: Women in labor: always the bridesmaid? / Karen Nussbaum; title: Working women's view of the economy, unions, and public policy / Peter D. Hart Research Associates; title: Back to the forefront: union organizing of immigrant workers in the nineties / Hector Figueroa; title: Building to win, building to last: the AFL-CIO political program / Steve Rosenthal; title: Informing and empowering American workers: ten rules for union political action / Geoffrey Garin & Guy Molyneux; title: Two for the year 2000 / Kelly Candaele; title: Public policy and the two-thirds majority / Marc Baldwin; title: A new internationalism: advancing workers' rights in the global economy / Barbara Shailor; title: The road to union city: building the American labor movement city by city / Amy B. Dean; title: The "America needs a raise" campaign: the new labor movement and the politics of living standards / David Kusnet; title: Part-time America won't work: the teamsters' fight for good jobs at UPS / Matt Witt and Rand Wilson; title: Fast track derailed / David Glenn; title: Labor's capital strategies / David Moberg; title: On the front lines: the labor movement around the country / Noel Beasley; title: Interview with John J. Sweeney / Juan Gonzalez.