Heroic Defeats
Subtitle: The Politics of Job Loss (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780521484329
Subjects: Industrial arbitration & negotiation; Political economy; Labor unions; Labor; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Politics - Current Events; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Downsizing of organizations--Case studies; Political Science / General; Downsizing of organizations; Case studies; Labor disputes
First sentence: Threatened with the bankruptcy of their employer in 1979, a majority of workers in Chrysler plants in the United States voted for major concessions in wages and benefits in an attempt to reduce the company's need for workforce reductions.