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Unions in Politics
Gary Wolfe Marks
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Description for Unions in Politics
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JH; JHBL; JPA; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
This book combines the tools of political science, sociology, and labor history to offer a wide-ranging analysis of how unions have participated in politics in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Rather than focus exclusively on national union federations, Gary Marks investigates variations among individual unions both within and across these countries. By examining the individual unions that make up union movements, he probes beyond national descriptions of British laborism, German socialism, and American business unionism while bringing the analysis closer to the actual experiences of people who joined labor organizations. Among the topics Marks examines are state repression ... Read more
This book combines the tools of political science, sociology, and labor history to offer a wide-ranging analysis of how unions have participated in politics in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Rather than focus exclusively on national union federations, Gary Marks investigates variations among individual unions both within and across these countries. By examining the individual unions that make up union movements, he probes beyond national descriptions of British laborism, German socialism, and American business unionism while bringing the analysis closer to the actual experiences of people who joined labor organizations. Among the topics Marks examines are state repression ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691631127
SKU
V9780691631127
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Reviews for Unions in Politics
"A rich study of union political activity that allows us to think through the influence of differing compositions of the labor force on national patterns of labor militancy."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research