Which Direction for Organized Labor?
Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations
Edited by Bruce Nissen
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814327791
Pages: 264 Size: 6x9
Review
Which Direction for Organized Labor? is an excellent collection of essays on crucial issues confronting the American labor movement.
— Kent Wong
With the decline of the labor movement in the United States over the past four decades, unions are facing the future with unresolved concerns over free trade agreements, dwindling memberships, and their own leverage with industry and government. Which Direction for Organized Labor? addresses critical questions facing the U.S. labor movements as it approaches the twenty-first century. It analyzes the overall state of organized labor and examines the direction it should take in rebuilding its strength and influence.
Which Direction for Organized Labor? is an excellent collection of essays on crucial issues confronting the American labor movement. The contributors include a dynamic cross section of scholars, union leaders, and front line activists who are grappling with the hard questions concerning labor's revitalization. This is an important contribution to the emerging dialogue among labor leaders and progressive intellectuals that is taking place throughout the country.
– Kent Wong, Director, UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education; President, University and College Labor Education Association