Reigniting the Labor Movement (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) - Softcover

Friedman, Gerald

 
9780415780018: Reigniting the Labor Movement (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415780012 ISBN 13: 9780415780018
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement’s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earliest days of the labor movement, activists have debated the appropriate strategy, the mix of revolutionary and reformist goals and the proper relationship between labor unions and broader social and political movements. So long as the labor movement was growing, moving from gain to gain, debates over strategy could remain abstract, safely confined to academic quarters. Decline and impending failure, however, have now made these urgent debates.

Written in a readable style, this book uses information from sixteen countries including the UK, US, Germany and France to chart the fortunes of the labor movement over recent years. The author, based at one of the top centres for heterodox economics, examines the current debates over strategy and suggests ways of reigniting its fortunes.

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Gerald Friedman

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415780012
ISBN 13 
9780415780018
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
214

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