The AFL-CIO and Women Workers
Author | : AFL-CIO. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Women labor union members |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : AFL-CIO. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Women labor union members |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kim Scipes |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : 0739135023 |
This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor. The author calls for American workers to join the global movement for economic and social justice and to extend globalization from 'below' against the values and activities of the top-down and destructive military-corporate globalization that has been sweeping the world for years.
Author | : AFL-CIO. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : AFL-CIO Auxiliaries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Weil |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2014-02-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 067472612X |
In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety protections, and ever-widening income inequality. From the perspectives of CEOs and investors, fissuring--splitting off functions that were once managed internally--has been phenomenally successful. Despite giving up direct control to subcontractors and franchises, these large companies have figured out how to maintain the quality of brand-name products and services, without the cost of maintaining an expensive workforce. But from the perspective of workers, this strategy has meant stagnation in wages and benefits and a lower standard of living. Weil proposes ways to modernize regulatory policies so that employers can meet their obligations to workers while allowing companies to keep the beneficial aspects of this business strategy.
Author | : AFL-CIO. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : AFL-CIO. Industrial Union Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carolyn J. Jacobson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Sex discrimination in employment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew E. Kersten |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2006-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814747868 |
One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s. The war years are pivotal in the history of American labor, but books on the AFL’s experiences are scant, with far more on the radical Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO). Andrew E. Kersten closes this gap with Labor’s Home Front, challenging us to reconsider the AFL and its influence on twentieth-century history. Kersten details the union's contributions to wartime labor relations, its opposition to the open shop movement, divided support for fair employment and equity for women and African American workers, its constant battles with the CIO, and its significant efforts to reshape American society, economics, and politics after the war. Throughout, Kersten frames his narrative with an original, central theme: that despite its conservative nature, the AFL was dramatically transformed during World War II, becoming a more powerful progressive force that pushed for liberal change.
Author | : Robert Anthony Waters Jr. |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137360224 |
After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from leading historians to explore its successes, challenges, and inevitable compromises as it pursued these initiatives during the Cold War.