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The broken table : the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor /
"In The Broken Table, Chris Rhomberg sees the Detroit strike as a historic collision of two opposing forces: a system in place since the New Deal governing disputes between labor and management and decades of increasingly aggressive corporate efforts to eliminate unions."--Jacket.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Labor Day in America
- Worlds of work: economy and civil society. The industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder
- Detroit: labor and community
- A "daily miracle": the life of the workplace
- The institutional regulation of labor. Proper channels: U.S. labor law and union-management relations
- The path to confrontation: the newspapers' joint operating agreement in Detroit
- Extraordinary measures: planning for war
- War of position: the 1995 contract negotiations
- The spaces of conflict. Worlds collide: the start of the strike
- Law and violence: permanent replacements and the control of collective action
- Theaters of engagement: state and civil society
- Waiting for justice: the return to work and the end of the strike
- Governing the workplace: American labor today. Conclusion: a signal juncture.