Labor Movements: Global Perspectives

by Stephanie Luce

Book Overview

Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in inequality within and between countries, steady or indeed rising unemployment and underemployment, and the marked increase in precarious work and migration, can unions still play a role in raising wages and improving work conditions?

This book provides a critical evaluation of labor unions both in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745670601
• ISBN13: 9780745670607
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.2"