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An Injury to All - The Decline of American Unionism (Paperback)
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An Injury to All - The Decline of American Unionism (Paperback)
Series: Haymarket
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Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage
cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first
comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan,
Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO's conservative ideology of
"business unionism" effectively disarmed unions in the face of a
domestic right turn and an epochal shift to globalized production.
Eschewing alliances with new social forces in favor of its old Cold
War liaisons and illusory compacts with big business, the AFL-CIO
under George Meany and Lane Kirkland has been forced to surrender
many of its post-war gains. With extraordinary attention to the
viewpoints of rank-and-file workers, Moody chronicles the major,
but largely unreported, efforts of labor's grassroots to find its
way out of the crisis. In case studies of auto, steel, meatpacking
and trucking, he traces the rise of "anti-concession" movements and
in other case studies describes the formidable obstacles to the
"organization of the unorganized" in the service sector. A detailed
analysis of the Rainbow Coalition's potential to unite labor with
other progressive groups follows, together with a pathbreaking
consideration of the possibilities of a new "labor
internationalism."
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