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For Labor's Sake
Art Shostak
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Paperback. These 28 essays illuminate what being an inside reformer means today in the American labour movement. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
In this volume 22 men and six women from 20 international unions stand in for several thousand counterparts and explain what being an inside reformer means today in the American labor movement. More interested in correcting labor's shortcomings and helping to chart a course for the future than in finger-pointing and blame-assigning, the change-agents help replace authoritarian styles of leadership with participative modes. They assure an adequate supply of valued resources for innovative projects. Pragmatic and rewarding, their reforms help broaden the limits of what other unionists see as achievable and begin to desire for their own situation. Intent on ... Read more
In this volume 22 men and six women from 20 international unions stand in for several thousand counterparts and explain what being an inside reformer means today in the American labor movement. More interested in correcting labor's shortcomings and helping to chart a course for the future than in finger-pointing and blame-assigning, the change-agents help replace authoritarian styles of leadership with participative modes. They assure an adequate supply of valued resources for innovative projects. Pragmatic and rewarding, their reforms help broaden the limits of what other unionists see as achievable and begin to desire for their own situation. Intent on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780819197757
SKU
V9780819197757
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About Art Shostak
Art Shostak Labor Educator; Professor of Sociology, Drexel University.
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