The death and life of American labor
Subtitle: toward a new workers' movement
By: Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781781681381
Subjects: History; Labor movement; Labor unions; Labor
Description: "Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he asserts that this death has been a long time coming--the organizing principles chosen by the labor movement at midcentury have come back to haunt the movement today. In an expansive survey of new initiatives, strikes, organizations and allies Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor's renewal, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers' movement"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.