Labor Under Fire : A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979 /
From the Reagan years to the present, the labour movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labour federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited mi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The roots of decline : the AFL-CIO in the Meany years
- A new president, and a new decade
- Kirkland fights back : the 1981 Solidarity Day mass march
- From solidarity to defeat
- Defending what we have : survival and decline in Reagan's second term
- Partial detente : George H.W. Bush and the AFL-CIO
- He's on our side? : Hope and betrayal in the Clinton years
- Saying no to the status-quo : the 1995 leadership challenge
- Big visions and big hopes : the early Sweeney years
- Our job has never been harder : the Sweeney presidency in the Bush era, 2001-2009
- Holding on in the Trumka years.