Beaten down, worked up : the past, present, and future of American labor
Greenhouse, Steven2019
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From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent comes an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered.
Main title:
Beaten down, worked up : the past, present, and future of American labor / by Steven Greenhouse.
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Imprint:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Collation:
xv, 397 pages cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-380) and index.
Contents:
pt. ONE STATE OF THE UNION -- One.Losing Our Voice -- Two.A Worker's Struggle Never Ends -- Three.Helping Workers Hit the Jackpot -- pt. TWO LABOR RAISES ITS VOICE -- Four.The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand -- Five.Out of These Ashes -- Six.Standing Up by Sitting Down -- Seven.Walter Reuther, Builder of the Middle Class -- Eight.I Am a Man -- pt. THREE HARD TIMES FOR LABOR -- Nine.Mighty Labor Strikes Out -- Ten.Labor's Slide Picks Up Speed -- Eleven.Corporations Turn Up the Heat -- Twelve.Labor's Self-Inflicted Wounds -- Thirteen.The Assault on Public-Sector Unions -- Fourteen.Big Labor Gets Less Big in Politics -- pt. FOUR LABOR, TODAY AND TOMORROW -- Fifteen.The Sharing---the Scraps---Economy -- Sixteen.The Fight for $15 -- Seventeen.For Farmworkers, from Worst to Best -- Eighteen.How Los Angeles Became Pro-Labor -- Nineteen.Best Foot Forward -- Twenty.Teachers Catch #RedforEd Fever -- Twenty-One.How Workers Can Regain Their Power.
ISBN:
9781101874431
Dewey class:
331.880973
Language:
English
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BRN:
362975
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business | 331.880973 GRE | Available |