Knocking on Labor's Door : Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide /

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Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and Southerners, Lane Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools - like unions and labour law - with legislative gains from the civil and women's rights movements t...

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Main Author: Windham, Lane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Labor unions.
Labor movement.
Labor laws and legislation.
Labor.
Industrial organization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Industrie > Organisation, contrôle, etc. > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Labor > United States > History.
Labor laws and legislation > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > United States > History > 20th century.
Industrial organization > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The dilemma of the narrow door
  • Millions go knocking
  • Employers close the door
  • Signing up in the shipyard
  • Out of the Southern frying pan, into the global fire
  • Resistance in retail: organizing Woodward & Lothrop
  • 9 to 5: framing a new doorway.

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