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The Union Makes Us Strong
David Wellman
其他書名
Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
出版Cambridge University Press, 1997-08-28
主題Business & Economics / Labor / UnionsPolitical Science / Labor & Industrial RelationsSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN05216296839780521629683
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kDqwUnFjKiQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant, democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and conflict will proceed.