American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a
history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful
of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of
Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of
ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised
itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the
shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks
quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday
union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this
book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant,
democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and
collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for
workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and
reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and
conflict will proceed.
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