What unions no longer do /
Jake Rosenfeld.
- First Edition.
- 279 pages : charts ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The collapse of organized labor in the United States -- Government is not the answer : why public sector unionism won't rescue the labor movement -- Wages and inequality -- Strikes -- The timing was terrible : deunionization and racial inequality -- Justice for janitors? : deunionization and Hispanic economic assimilation -- The ballot box : deunionization and political participation -- The past as prologue : the labor movement prenew deal, today, and tomorrow -- Appendix: Data and methods -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Labor movement--United States. Income distribution--United States. Labor unions--Political activity--United States. Minorities--Social conditions.--United States