Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement

by Steven Lopez and Steve López

Book Overview

This gripping insider's look at the contemporary American trade union movement shows that reports of organized labor's death are premature. In this eloquent and erudite narrative, Steven Henry Lopez demonstrates how, despite a hostile legal environment and the punitive anti-unionism of U.S. employers, a few unions have organized hundreds of thousands of low-wage service workers in the past few years. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520235657
• ISBN13: 9780520235656
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"