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The Next Upsurge - Labor and the New Social Movements (Hardcover, New)
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The Next Upsurge - Labor and the New Social Movements (Hardcover, New)
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The U.S. labor movement may be on the verge of massive growth,
according to Dan Clawson. He argues that unions don't grow slowly
and incrementally, but rather in bursts. Even if the AFL-CIO could
organize twice as many members per year as it now does, it would
take thirty years to return to the levels of union membership that
existed when Ronald Reagan was elected president. In contrast,
labor membership more than quadrupled in the years from 1934 to
1945. For there to be a new upsurge, Clawson asserts, labor must
fuse with social movements concerned with race, gender, and global
justice. The new forms may create a labor movement that breaks down
the boundaries between "union" and "community" or between work and
family issues. Clawson finds that this is already happening in some
parts of the labor movement: labor has endorsed global justice and
opposed war in Iraq, student activists combat sweatshops, unions
struggle for immigrant rights. Innovative campaigns of this sort,
Clawson shows, create new strategies--determined by workers rather
than union organizers-that redefine the very meaning of the labor
movement. "The Next Upsurge presents a range of examples from
attempts to replace "macho" unions with more feminist models to
campaigns linking labor and community issues and attempts to
establish cross-border solidarity and a living wage.
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