Author:
Storch, Randi, 1970-
ImprintChichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, 2013.
Descriptionx, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction: Back to the future -- 1. "Everyone was ready for unionism": the precursors, promises, and pitfalls of industrial unions in the 1930s : Political prelude: industrial democracy betrayed, from Wilson to Hoover ; Corporate prelude: the unintended consequences of 1920s corporate policies ; Working-class prelude: activism ; A New Deal for workers: a failed and flawed start ; Fighting for unionism in the 1930s without meaningful Federal protection ; The Wagner Act and industrial unionism ; Corporate resistance and workers' unity ; Extending the New Deal for workers ; Assessing workers' New Deal and industrial unionism -- 2. Big wars, big labor, big costs : Wartime mobilization, 1939-1941 ; Government intervention: war industries and labor policies, 1941-1945 ; Wartime demographic developments ; Crisis in industrial relations, 1945-1946 ; Postwar politics and Taft-Hartley, 1946-1948 ; Political (mis)calculations: Operation Dixie, CIO purges, and international alliances, 1946-1950s ; Big labor, big costs, 1955-1960s -- 3. Civil rights versus labor rights, 1960s-1970s : Expanding public and service sectors ; Public sector workers and union rights ; New laws and workplace challenges ; Women and workplace rights ; The push and pull of changing times: new unionists, rank-and-file movements, AFL-CIO leaders, and Nixon ; Unionists divided and under siege -- 4. Working more for less and other troubles for workers in the late twentieth century : Profit making in a global world ; The human price of modern capitalism ; The political shaping of the economy ; The AFL-CIO leadership's resistance to change ; Innovation and possibilities ; Change from the bottom-up -- Epilogue: The illusive American dream: a personal journey.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-277) and index.
