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America Needs a Raise
John J. SweeneyDavid Kusnet
其他書名
Fighting for Economic Security and Social Justice
出版Houghton Mifflin, 1996
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Economics / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Economics / TheoryPolitical Science / Labor & Industrial RelationsPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Activism & Social Justice
ISBN03958230059780395823002
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HEPtAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋John J. Sweeney and the new leadership of the AFL-CIO are committing millions of dollars and thousands of organizers to the mobilization of working people all over the country. America Needs a Raise is Sweeney's manifesto. It is a blunt yet compassionate account of the dilemmas facing American workers of all kinds: high tech and low, immigrant and native born, blue collar and white. Sweeney targets the growing disparity between rich and poor, the decline in the standard of living of middle- and working-class Americans, the overwork and unemployment, the racial polarization and ethnic animosity, and the gnawing sense of powerlessness and uncertainty that afflicts us all. He indicts corporate America too for its" lean and mean" abdication of social responsibility. He offers a way of dealing with the realities of the global economy that is more effective and humane than the downsizing of America and the sacrifice of working people on the altar of international competitiveness. Most of a