Labor Movements: Global Perspectives
Stephanie Luce
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Description for Labor Movements: Global Perspectives
Paperback. Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. Series: Social Movements. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: JHB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration, can unions still play a role in raising wages and improving work conditions?
Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration, can unions still play a role in raising wages and improving work conditions?
This book provides a critical evaluation of labor unions both in the U.S. and globally, examining the factors that have led to the decline of union power and arguing that, despite their challenges, unions still have a vital part to play ... Read more
This important assessment of labor movements in the global economy will be required reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of labor studies, political and economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social movements.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Condition
New
Series
Social Movements
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745670607
SKU
V9780745670607
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Stephanie Luce
Stephanie Luce is an Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute, City University of New York. She is a leading expert on living wages. Professor Luce worked as an economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and a Congressional Commission on Agricultural Workers before earning her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. She has ... Read more
Reviews for Labor Movements: Global Perspectives
''Stephanie Luce gives us an informed and wise assessment of the crucial role of unions in resisting the forces unleashed by neoliberal capitalism. She deals unblinkingly with the opposition that unions confront today and with their own internal weaknesses as well. Yet she concludes that rolling back an unbridled capitalism cannot be accomplished without a revived and innovative labor movement. ... Read more