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Labor in America: A History | 
 enlarge | Authors: Melvyn Dubofsky, Foster Rhea Dulles
Publisher: Harlan Davidson
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 476262
Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0882959980
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.880973
EAN: 9780882959986
ASIN: 0882959980
Publication Date: January 2004
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Even since the last edition of this milestone text was released, union membership in the private sector of the economy has fallen to levels not seen since the nineteenth century; the forces of economic liberalization (neo-liberalism), capital mobility, and globalization have affected measurably the material standard of living enjoyed by workers in the United States; and mass immigration from the Southern Hemisphere and Asia has continued to restructure the domestic labor forceall of which has been exacerbated by national security policy formed in the shadow of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Yet even in the face of anti-union legislation and a continuing decline in the number of organized workers, the purpose of the latest edition of this popular textbookthe powerful and appealing story of the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly lineremains the same as that of the first edition written by Foster Rhea Dulles more than a half century ago: to enlighten present and future generations of students about the history of work, workers, and worker movements in the United States, and to encourage them to learn and think about those who built the United States and those who will shape its future.
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To work with dignity May 31, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is not "Capitalism in America". It is not "Management in America". If you can accept the focus on labor and the concerns for labor, this may be a useful book for you.
I wasn't offerered a class in Labor in High School. It would have been a big help in entering the work world, if I had had the sense to listen to it then. Now I've been working decades but this book is still a big help. My sense of labor history has been terrible.
There were slaves. In colonial times, there were indentured servants. Within the past century, government forces have been used to imprison or kill people who went on strike. To the extent our government finds itself in war, it doesn't want to lose products and services to strikers, so there are laws that can be invoked to force people to work. Labor unions may have become content to do a minimal amount. Industrial unions have been heavily resisted by employers and the government, although even today the Industrial Workers of the World is making constructive efforts.
Haymarket. Homestead. Names worth knowing and honoring. Will worker conditions slide back? Knowing history helps, this isn't the first time unemployment, cheap labor, or new technology threatened labor. As capital has responded with welfare capitalism, with hi tech niceties like stock options and free soda, as McDonaldization spread workers out but under a common corporate control. as they are fewer tough workers like miners and longshoreman, as globalism undermines the benefit of local work forces's unity, understanding labor history and wisdom is as important as ever before.
Understanding labor issues is central to understanding one's life, to feeling deep in one's joints all the years one will be work. It will be up to you to turn this fact-filled book into a healthy path for yourself and perhaps others.
a world of knowledge September 16, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
an absoulty amazing book covering America's labor struggle from the begining to current day.
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