The transformation of U.S. unions : voices, visions, and strategies from the grassroots / edited by Ray M. Tillman, Michael S. Cummings.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformations in politics and societyPublication details: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, c1999.Description: vi, 297 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 155567813x
Other title:
  • Transformations of US unions
  • Transformations of United States unions
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.88/ T772 23
Summary: What's wrong with U.S. unions, and what could make it right? These are the questions addressed by nineteen partisans - union dissidents and noted scholars - of union democracy. Agreeing that any long-term solutions must come from the grassroots of the union movement, they argue for expansion rather than contraction, militancy rather than accommodation, and internal democracy rather than oligarchy.Summary: To break the stranglehold of business, union, and government elites, they emphasize, ordinary workers must be energetically recruited and actively involved in the management of their unions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's wrong with U.S. unions, and what could make it right? These are the questions addressed by nineteen partisans - union dissidents and noted scholars - of union democracy. Agreeing that any long-term solutions must come from the grassroots of the union movement, they argue for expansion rather than contraction, militancy rather than accommodation, and internal democracy rather than oligarchy.

To break the stranglehold of business, union, and government elites, they emphasize, ordinary workers must be energetically recruited and actively involved in the management of their unions.

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