Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics Labor Politics in American Life /

• Main Author: Form, William (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1995.
• Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.

My curiosity and concern about the working class in America stems from childhood memories of my father, a cabinetmaker, and of my oldest brother, an autoworker, who were passionately involved in the labor movement. Perhaps because they so wanted the working class to achieve greater social and econom...

Table of Contents:

• Change and Decline
• Explaining Labor’s Political Fortunes
• Can a Class Theory of Labor Politics Be Saved?
• Labor as a Changing Social Class
• Labor’s Changing and Turbulent Environment
• All Politics Is Local
• Labor Politics in Three Cities
• Economy, Politics, and Labor in Three Cities
• Cleveland
• Cincinnati
• Columbus
• Labor-Party Relations in Three Cities
• Labor, Community, and State Politics
• Labor in National Politics
• Bargaining in the Democratic Party
• Labor Politics in Washington
• Organizational Reform or Movement Revival?.