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Knocking on Labor's Door

Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide

By (author) Anna Lane Windham
Format: Hardback
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, United States
Published: 30th Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 155mm h 235mm
ISBN-10: 1469632071
ISBN-13: 9781469632070
Barcode No: 9781469632070
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The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different story. Highlighting the integral, often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and Southerners, Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools - like unions and labor law - with legislative gains from the civil and women's rights movements to help shore up their prospects. Through close-up studies of workers' campaigns in shipbuilding, textiles, retail, and service, Windham overturns widely held myths about labor's decline, showing instead how employers united to manipulate weak labor law and quash a new wave of worker organizing. Full of stories of employees attempting to unionize against overwhelming opposition from bosses and corporations, Windham dramatically refashions the story of labor and politics during a crucial decade and remaps the recent history of the American workplace. Her story inspires both hope and indignation, and will become a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women's history.

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