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- Title
Why Is There No Labor Movement in the United States?
- Authors
Merrill, Michael
- Abstract
The objective conditions requisite for a labor movement revival are palpable: more poverty, more income inequality, more families without health insurance, more retiree without adequate pensions, not to mention the recent near-collapse of global finance. Despite conditions so ripe for unionism, the labor movement barely holds its own. Why? And what can be done about it? Does the future lie in a "transformative" (i.e., revolutionary) anticapitalist class struggle? Or does it lie closer to the roots of the current social democratic contractualism of the mainstream labor movement? Two recent books provide an opportunity for Michael Merrill to explore these questions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BIG Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, The (Book); SOLIDARITY Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor &; a New Path Toward Social Justice (Book); GREENHOUSE, Steven; FLETCHER, Bill; GAPASIN, Fernando; LABOR movement; SOCIAL conflict; POVERTY in the United States; UNITED States social conditions
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-2009-057