The broken table
Subtitle: the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor
By: Chris Rhomberg
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780871547170; 9781610447751
Subjects: Collective bargaining; Strikes and lockouts; Newspaper employees; Labor unions; Newspaper publishing; Gannett Company; Newspapers; Newspaper Strike, Detroit, Mich., 1995-1997; Knight-Ridder (Firm)
Description: "In The Broken Table, Chris Rhomberg sees the Detroit strike as a historic collision of two opposing forces: a system in place since the New Deal governing disputes between labor and management and decades of increasingly aggressive corporate efforts to eliminate unions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Labor Day in America; title: Worlds of work: economy and civil society. The industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder; title: Detroit: labor and community; title: A "daily miracle": the life of the workplace; title: The institutional regulation of labor. Proper channels: U.S. labor law and union-management relations; title: The path to confrontation: the newspapers' joint operating agreement in Detroit; title: Extraordinary measures: planning for war; title: War of position: the 1995 contract negotiations; title: The spaces of conflict. Worlds collide: the start of the strike; title: Law and violence: permanent replacements and the control of collective action; title: Theaters of engagement: state and civil society; title: Waiting for justice: the return to work and the end of the strike; title: Governing the workplace: American labor today. Conclusion: a signal juncture.