Highly acclaimed and widely read, "American Workers, American
Unions" (first published in 1986, revised ed. 1994) provides a
concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions
in twentieth-century America. This new edition features new
chapters on the pre-1920 period, as well as an entirely new final
chapter that covers developments of the 1980s and 1990s in detail.
There the authors explore how economic change, union stagnation,
and antilabor policies have combined to erode workers' standards
and labor's influence in the political arena over the last two
decades. They review current "alternatives to unionism" as means of
achieving fair workplace representations but insist that strong
unions remain essential in a democratic society. They argue that
labor's new responsiveness to the concerns of women, minority
groups, and low-wage workers, as well as its resurgent political
activism, offer new hope for trade unionism. Also included in this
third edition is new bibliographical material and a regularly
updated on-line link to an extended bibliographical essay.
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