Labor Under Fire : A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minchin, Timothy J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
AFL-CIO.
AFL-CIO > History > 21st century.
AFL-CIO > History > 20th century.
Labor unions.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Labor unions > United States > History > 21st century.
Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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