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- Title
Labor History for the Future.
- Authors
RACHLEFF, PETER
- Abstract
The article investigates the past labor movements which could help American workers find their way to a path forward given the current weak position of the U.S. labor movement due to attacks on public employees/collective bargaining rights, state-level measures to impose right-to-work for a private sector and global contracting out of work. In the mid-1880s, the Knights of Labor in Richmond, Virginia created a Workingmen's Reform Party and swept to control of the city government. White and African American workers organized Local Asemblies of Knights of Labor following pre-existing sinews of networks that workers built in their daily lives like a shared trade or employer, shared residence in a neighborhood and membership in a fraternal or mutual aid society.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LABOR movement; EMPLOYEES; CIVIL service; COLLECTIVE bargaining laws; RIGHT-to-work laws; CONTRACTING out
- Publication
Social Policy, 2012, Vol 42, Issue 3, p34
- ISSN
0037-7783
- Publication type
Article