When Strikes Make Sense - And Why
Samuel Cohn
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Description for When Strikes Make Sense - And Why
Hardback. Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJ; KNXB3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1250.
Social scientists have not helped the working class make strategic deci sions. Unionists need to know how to carry on industrial conflict so as to provide concrete economic benefits for their members. Should unions strike or not strike? Should losses be avoided at all costs, or can unions afford to take chances? Does economism gut the class power of workers or provide a pragmatic strategy for increasing workers' wage gains? We can say with great confidence that workers should join unions; there is now an exhaustive and compelling literature demonstrating that union membership provides a wide variety of economic benefits. ... Read more
Social scientists have not helped the working class make strategic deci sions. Unionists need to know how to carry on industrial conflict so as to provide concrete economic benefits for their members. Should unions strike or not strike? Should losses be avoided at all costs, or can unions afford to take chances? Does economism gut the class power of workers or provide a pragmatic strategy for increasing workers' wage gains? We can say with great confidence that workers should join unions; there is now an exhaustive and compelling literature demonstrating that union membership provides a wide variety of economic benefits. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Series
Springer Studies in Work and Industry
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306444456
SKU
V9780306444456
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Reviews for When Strikes Make Sense - And Why
`Cohn construct[s] the most extensive and sophisticated analysis of strikes' outcomes that anyone has ever done... With exemplary clarity, Cohn lays out his ideas, sources, methods, findings, substantive conclusions, and strategic inferences. Informed readers are likely to wonder how conclusions drawn from the experience of French miners between 1890 to 1935 apply to other times ... Read more