"In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required
to significantly rebuild union power, unions must fundamentally
alter their internal organizational practices. This means creating
more organizer positions on the staff; developing programs to teach
current members how to handle the tasks involved in resolving
shop-floor grievances; and building programs that train members to
participate fully in the work of external organizing. Such a
reorientation entails redefining the very meaning of union
membership from a relatively passive stance toward one of
continuous active engagement." from the Introduction In Rebuilding
Labor Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss bring together established
researchers and a new generation of labor scholars to assess the
current state of labor organizing and its relationship to union
revitalization. Throughout this collection, the focus is on the
formidable challenges unions face today and on how they may be
overcome. Rebuilding Labor begins with a comprehensive overview of
recent union organizing in the United States; goes on to present a
series of richly detailed case studies of such topics as union
leadership, organizer recruitment and retention, union democracy,
and the dynamics of anti-unionism among rank-and-file workers; and
concludes with a quantitative chapter on the relationship between
union victories and establishment survival. This interdisciplinary
collection of original scholarship on New Labor offers a window
into an otherwise invisible emergent social movement."
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