Class Acts: An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union

by Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger

Book Overview

American labor leaders are constantly developing new programs to revive the union movement. What happens when these plans collide with the daily lives of front-line union staff and members? This book examines the often conflicting interests of key players in the trenches of a national effort to bring back the American labor movement. Brutally honest, funny, never dull, this anthropological ethnography shows the daily struggles of union members today...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594510822
• ISBN13: 9781594510823
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"