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American workers, American unions : the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

Title
American workers, American unions : the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries / Robert H. Zieger, Timothy J. Minchin, and Gilbert J. Gall.
Author
Zieger, Robert H.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Minchin, Timothy J.
  • Gall, Gilbert J.
Description
x, 334 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"Taking into account recent important work on the 1970s and the Reagan revolution, the fourth edition newly considers the stagflation issue, the rise of globalization and big box retailing, the failure of Congress to pass legislation supporting the right of public employees to collective bargaining, the defeat in Congress of legislation to revise the National Labor Relations Act, the emasculation of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, and the changing dynamics of blue-collar politics"--
Series Statement
American moment
Uniform Title
American moment.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The new industrial regime -- War, prosperity, and depression, 1914-1933 -- Rebirth of the unions, 1933-1939 -- Labor goes to war, 1939-1945 -- Strikes, politics, radicalism, 1945-1950 -- Affluent workers, stable unions : labor in the postwar decades -- Race, war, politics : labor in the 1960s -- Labor at the close of the twentieth century -- Losing ground : workers and unions since 9/11.
ISBN
  • 9781421413433 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 1421413434 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9781421413440 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1421413442 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013036938
  • 99959267277
OCLC
  • 863196562
  • ocn863196562
  • SCSB-9399233
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries