Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. While keeping these agendas clearly in sight, Erem focuses primarily on aspects of the li
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| Title | : | Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (139 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583670580 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2001-09-01 |
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Editorial : From the Publisher ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LABOR PAINS BY SUZAN EREM "I love it! It's about time somebody wrote about union organizing as the adventure it truly is! I hope this is the beginning of a whole new era in labor writing, which has historically been all too dry. Labor Pains is a great read." --BARBARA EHRENREICH "As a new generation of campus activists move into the labor movement, Labor Pains captures the complex hard love that working within today's labor movement entails. Through Suzan Erem's very readable stories we get a sometimes troubling, sometimes heartening, and mostly very real sense of the day to day struggles of a union trying to do right by its members and its vision, in an ever more challenging environment for workers and unions. It is a very personal story, framed by Erem's unique background and experience, but still tells a universal story about sticking with the union, even when the going gets rough." --KATE BRONFENBRENNER, DIRECTOR, NYS SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL AND L
Labor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement.The role of the unions is defined mainly by larger economic and political agendas. While keeping these agendas clearly in sight, Erem focuses primarily on aspects of the life of the union which often remain hidden. The personal crises of union members become entangled in the work of the union. The energies of the union are focused not only on winning gains from bosses but also on maintaining internal cohesion and morale among workers. Barriers of race, age and gender are constantly negotiated and overcome, and conflicts flare up across them at moments of tension. And union life goes on not only when the workers have made their point, or wo
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