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Beaten down, worked up, the past, present, and future of American labor, Steven Greenhouse

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-380) and index

index present

non fiction

Beaten down, worked up

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Steven Greenhouse

the past, present, and future of American labor

Wage stagnation, low-wage work, and blighted blue-collar communities have become an all-too-common part of modern-day America. Behind these trends is a little-discussed problem: the decades-long decline in worker power. Greenhouse rebuts the often-stated view that labor unions are outmoded or harmful, by recounting some of labor's victories, and the efforts of several of today's most innovative and successful worker groups. He also proposes concrete, feasible ways in which workers' collective power can be rekindled and reimagined in the twenty-first century. Adapted from the book jacket and Amazon.com

State of the Union. Losing our voice ; A worker's struggle never ends ; Helping workers hit the jackpot -- Labor Raises Its Voice. The uprising of the twenty thousand ; Out of these ashes ; Standing up by sitting down ; Walter Reuther, builder of the middle class ; I am a man -- Hard Times for Labor. Mighty labor strikes out ; Labor's slide picks up speed ; Corporations turn up the heat ; Labor's self-inflicted wounds ; The assault on public-sector unions ; Big labor gets less big in politics -- Labor, Today and Tomorrow. The sharing, the scraps, economy : The fight for $15 ; For farmworkers, from worst to best ; How Los Angeles became pro-labor ; Best foot forward ; Teachers catch #RedforEd fever ; How workers can regain their power

Past, present, and future of American labor