We Are the Union : Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing /

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Shows how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cosy partnership between union leadership & corporate management. Focusing on the 1995 strike at Boeing, Cloud renders a multi-layered account of the battles between company & the union & within...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cloud, Dana L.
Other Authors: Thomas, R. Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Boeing Company
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Boeing Aerospace Company.
Boeing Aerospace Company > Management.
Strejker > Förenta staterna > Kansas > Wichita.
Fackligt arbete > Förenta staterna > Kansas > Wichita.
Luftfahrtindustrie
Arbeiterbewegung
Arbeitskonflikt
Arbeitsbeziehungen
Gewerkschaft
Strikes and lockouts.
Management.
Labor unions.
Dissenters.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Dissidents > Kansas > Wichita.
Greves et lock-out > Kansas > Wichita.
Syndicats > Kansas > Wichita.
Dissenters > Kansas > Wichita.
Strikes and lockouts > Kansas > Wichita.
Labor unions > Kansas > Wichita.
USA
Kansas > Wichita.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "to get to Boeing, we first had to take on the union"
  • Business unionism and rank-and-file unionism at the turn of the millennium
  • Not a smooth flight for Boeing and the union
  • Enter the dissidents
  • The problem with "jointness"
  • The 1995 strike and the rejection of the second contract
  • "The feeble strength of one"
  • Carrying the memory of agitation : a dialogue between Keith Thomas and Dana Cloud
  • Communication and clout
  • Conclusion : the beginnings and ends of union democracy.

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