The Boycott In American Trade Unions
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Author |
: Leo Wolman |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000099029633 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boycott in American Trade Unions by : Leo Wolman
Author |
: G. William Domhoff |
Publisher |
: Touchstone |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105002613177 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Who Rules America Now? by : G. William Domhoff
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Author |
: Samuel Gompers |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1925 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015008277090 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Organized Labor... by : Samuel Gompers
Author |
: Gay W. Seidman |
Publisher |
: Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2007-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610444880 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610444884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Boycott by : Gay W. Seidman
As the world economy becomes increasingly integrated, companies can shift production to wherever wages are lowest and unions weakest. How can workers defend their rights in an era of mobile capital? With national governments forced to compete for foreign investment by rolling back legal protections for workers, fair trade advocates are enlisting consumers to put market pressure on companies to treat their workers fairly. In Beyond the Boycott, sociologist Gay Seidman asks whether this non-governmental approach can reverse the "race to the bottom" in global labor standards. Beyond the Boycott examines three campaigns in which activists successfully used the threat of a consumer boycott to pressure companies to accept voluntary codes of conduct and independent monitoring of work sites. The voluntary Sullivan Code required American corporations operating in apartheid-era South Africa to improve treatment of their workers; in India, the Rugmark inspection team provides 'social labels' for handknotted carpets made without child labor; and in Guatemala, COVERCO monitors conditions in factories producing clothing under contract for major American brands. Seidman compares these cases to explore the ingredients of successful campaigns, as well as the inherent limitations facing voluntary monitoring schemes. Despite activists' emphasis on educating individual consumers to support ethical companies, Seidman finds that, in practice, they have been most successful when they mobilized institutions—such as universities, churches, and shareholder organizations. Moreover, although activists tend to dismiss states' capabilities, all three cases involved governmental threats of trade sanctions against companies and countries with poor labor records. Finally, Seidman points to an intractable difficulty of independent workplace monitoring: since consumers rarely distinguish between monitoring schemes and labels, companies can hand pick monitoring organizations, selecting those with the lowest standards for working conditions and the least aggressive inspections. Transnational consumer movements can increase the bargaining power of the global workforce, Seidman argues, but they cannot replace national governments or local campaigns to expand the meaning of citizenship. As trade and capital move across borders in growing volume and with greater speed, civil society and human rights movements are also becoming more global. Highly original and thought-provoking, Beyond the Boycott vividly depicts the contemporary movement to humanize globalization—its present and its possible future. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology
Author |
: William E. Forbath |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674037083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674037081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement by : William E. Forbath
Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.
Author |
: George Milton Janes |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:LI3ZE5 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (E5 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Trade Unionism by : George Milton Janes
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: United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel |
Publisher |
: U.S. Government Printing Office |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000050011174 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act by : United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel
Author |
: David Paul Smelser |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030369683 |
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: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unemployment and American Trade Unions by : David Paul Smelser
Author |
: George Milton Janes |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 658 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556002018208 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Control of Strikes in American Trade Unoins [sic] by : George Milton Janes
Author |
: Theodore Wesley Glocker |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 1913 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015069761370 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Government of American Trade Unions by : Theodore Wesley Glocker