Open AccessThe Future of American Labor: Reinventing Unions
Author(s) -
Kim Voss,
Rick Fantasia
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
contexts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6052
pISSN - 1536-5042
DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2004.3.2.35
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , labor history , political economy , movement (music) , work (physics) , labor union , labor relations , political science , labour law , labour economics , law , law and economics , sociology , economics , engineering , art , mechanical engineering , ecology , biology , aesthetics
The U.S. labor movement is in deep trouble. Many assume that union decline is irreversible—the result of changes in the nature of work and unions' inability to adapt. However, American laws and corporate resistance are also responsible. New union tactics and militancy point toward a possible revival of a workers' movement.
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