The anthropology of labor unions
By: edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah S. Reichart
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780870819650
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah Reichart; title: Miners, women, and community coalitions in the UMWA Pittston Strike / Karaleah Reichart; title: Is this what democracy looks like? / E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem; title: With God on everyone's side : truth telling and toxic words among Methodists and organized farmworkers in North Carolina / Sandi Smith-Nonini; title: Buying out the union : jobs as property and the UAW / Peter Richardson; title: Approaching industrial democracy in nonunion mines : lessons from Wyoming's Powder River basin / Jessica M. Smith; title: Small places, close to home : the importance of place in organizing workers / Lydia Savage; title: Economic globalization and changing capital-labor relations in Baja California's fresh-produce industry / Christian Zlolniski; title: The tobacco trap : obstacles to trade unionism in Malawi / Marty Otañez; title: Concluding thoughts / Karen Brodkin; title: Afterword / E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah Reichart.