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A Strategy for Labor
Author(s) -
ROGERS JOEL
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1995.tb00378.x
Subject(s) - premise , democracy , economics , labour economics , service (business) , labor disputes , political economy , economic system , market economy , labor relations , political science , law , politics , economy , philosophy , linguistics
Labor's decline is advanced, disastrous for democracy, and unlikely to be relieved by labor law reform at the national level. Unions need a strategy for revival that does not premise such relief, and that takes account of the deeper changes in social and economic organization that have undermined their strength. Such a strategy is available, but it requires a sharp break with the uncoordinated, firm‐centered, and politically non‐independent “service model” unionism, exclusively preoccupied with units where majority status has been achieved, still generally practiced today.