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The future we need organizing for a better democracy in the twenty-first century

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people--not only changing their wages and working conditions,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Smiley, Erica (Autor), Gupta, Sarita (Political activist) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Smith, DeMaurice F. (writer of foreword)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2022
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by DeMaurice F. Smith
  • Introduction : Who rules?
  • Part 1. How Did We Get Here? 1. Collective bargaining : A powerful but neglected tool
  • 2. Workplace democracy does not happen by accident : A story of US labor movements
  • 3. The great rollback : Capital fights back
  • Part 2. The Building Blocks of Economic Democracy. Profile of the author : Erica Smiley : In exactly the right place
  • 4. Worth fighting for : Collective bargaining in the workplace
  • 5. Beyond workers : Organizing whole people
  • 6. Organizing all people : We will not win without destroying white supremacy and patriarchy
  • 7. Beyond the red and the blue : A new map for twenty-first-century organizers
  • Part 3. The Way We Win. Profile of the author : Sarita Gupta : Making meaning of the world
  • 8. Bargaining with the real decision-makers : The ultimate profiteers of global capitalism
  • 9. Community-driven bargaining : Negotiating beyond the workplace
  • 10. Building long-term labor-community power : Bargaining for the common good
  • 11. Who benefits? Technology, work, and a future not yet written
  • Conclusion : What it takes.