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Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics
William Form
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Description for Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics
Paperback. Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Num Pages: 380 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
My curiosity and concern about the working class in America stems from childhood memories of my father, a cabinetmaker, and of my oldest brother, an autoworker, who were passionately involved in the labor movement. Perhaps because they so wanted the working class to achieve greater social and economic justice and because they insisted it was not happening, I became curious to know the reasons why. Without even being aware of it, I began to explore a possible explanation—the internal diver sity of the working class. In my studies of autoworkers (the prototype proletarians) in the United States, Italy, Argentina, and ... Read more
My curiosity and concern about the working class in America stems from childhood memories of my father, a cabinetmaker, and of my oldest brother, an autoworker, who were passionately involved in the labor movement. Perhaps because they so wanted the working class to achieve greater social and economic justice and because they insisted it was not happening, I became curious to know the reasons why. Without even being aware of it, I began to explore a possible explanation—the internal diver sity of the working class. In my studies of autoworkers (the prototype proletarians) in the United States, Italy, Argentina, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Series
Springer Studies in Work and Industry
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475770155
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V9781475770155
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Reviews for Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics
`Offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive sociological account of contemporary labor politics to appear in the last two decades... will be read and appreciated by students of labor and politics and... men and women who now preside over the American labor movement.' Contemporary Sociology `Well-researched and well-written ... Read more