Mutual Aid and Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action

by Peter A. Bamberger, Samuel B. Bacharach, William J. Sonnenstuhl

Book Overview

The ongoing decline in union membership is generally attributed to an increasingly hostile economic, legal, and managerial environment. Samuel B. Bacharach, Peter A. Bamberger, and William J. Sonnenstuhl argue that the decline may have more to do with a crisis of union legitimacy and member commitment. They further suggest that both problems could be addressed if the unions return to their nineteenth-century, mutual aid-based roots.The authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080148734X
• ISBN13: 9780801487347
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"