Detroit-based labor journalist Kim Moody shows that despite frequent hostility from traditionally pro-labor political parties and opposition on the part of union leadership, the threatened demise of organized labor across the globe has been greatly exaggerated. Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines and calls for international coordination among national unions. ...

Wisconsin accounts for about two percent the nation's total population, of but its contribution to the history of working people and social reform extends far beyond these numbers. In the early years of the twentieth century, Wisconsin became a veritable laboratory for social and political reform, producing such landmark legislation as workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, and other laws that became models for several states and helped ...

This history of New York transit workers from the Great Depression to the monumental 1966 transit strike shows how, through collective action, the men and women who operated the world's largest transit system brought about a virtual revolution in their daily lives. Joshua Freeman's detailed descriptions of both transit work and transit workers, and his full account of the formation and development of the Transport Workers Union provide new ...

Encouraged by the feminist movement of the early 1970s, a group of women (and a few men) began what would become a decades-long struggle to organize staff employees at Harvard. John Hoerr tells this story from the points of view of both Harvard administrators and union organizers. With unusual access to its meetings, leaders, and files, he examines the unique culture of a female-led union from the inside. ...

Shows how different levels of worker participation during a union organizing campaign influence the perceptions and actions of those same workers after the campaign ends, and, thereby, the long-term effectiveness and success of the organizing effort. Drawing on historical and current examples, the author analyzes the political and economic contexts within which today's unions are organizing, including a detailed examination of the impact of the ...

This is the only book you need to read for a concise, comprehensive, and accessible history of the modern labor movememt in the United States. ...

Explores the complex relationship between dance, work and labor in the 1930s.
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Canadians Often Consider The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 To Be The defining event in working-class history following the First World War. This book, the collaboration of nine labour historians, shows the unrest was both more diverse and widespread across the country than is generally believed.<P>The authors clarify what happened in working-class Canada at the end of the war and situate 'the workers' revolt' within the larger structure ...

As World War II wound down in 1945 and the Cold War heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the production process, with far-reaching ...

From the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) brought together America's working men and women under a united class banner. Of the 38 CIO unions, 18 were 'left-wing' or 'Communist-dominated'. Yet the political struggle between the CIO's 'Communist dominated' and right-leaning unions was immensely divisive and self-destructive. How did the Communists win, hold, and wield power in the CIO unions? Did ...