What unions no longer do /Jake Rosenfeld.

Rosenfeld, Jake, 1978-

What unions no longer do /Jake Rosenfeld. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (279 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- The collapse of organized labor in the United States -- Government is not the answer : why public sector unionism won't rescue the labor movement -- Wages and inequality -- Strikes -- The timing was terrible : deunionization and racial inequality -- Justice for janitors? : deunionization and Hispanic economic assimilation -- The ballot box : deunionization and political participation -- The past as prologue : the labor movement pre-new deal, today, and tomorrow -- Appendix: Data and methods -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.



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Labor movement--United States.
Income distribution--United States.
Labor unions--Political activity--United States.
Minorities--Social conditions.--United States


Electronic Books.

HD8072 / .W438 2014