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Online-Ressource (257 p)
ISBN:
9780252036378
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Dana L. Cloud engages union reformers at Boeing to reveal how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the partnership between union leadership and corporate management. _x000B_Focusing on the 1995 strike at Boeing, Cloud renders an account of the battles between the company and the union and within the union led by Unionists for Democratic Change and two other dissident groups. She voices the company's claims of the hardships of competitiveness the entrenched union leaders' calls for concessions in the name of job security, alongside the democratic union reformers' fight for a rank-and-file upsurge against both the company and the union leaders._x000B_Incorporating theory and methods from the fields of organizational communication as well as labor studies, Cloud methodically uncovers and analyzes the goals, strategies, and dilemmas of the dissidents who took up the gauntlet to make it more responsive to workers and less conciliatory toward management.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "To Get to Boeing, We First Had to Take on the Union -- 1. Business Unionism and Rank-and-File Unionism at the Turn of the Millennium -- 2. Not a Smooth Flight for Boeing and the Union -- 3. Enter the Dissidents -- 4. The Problem with "Jointness" -- 5. The 1995 Strike and the Rejection of the Second Contract -- 6. "The Feeble Strength of One" -- 7. Carrying the Memory of Agitation: A Dialogue between Keith Thomas and Dana Cloud -- 8. Communication and Clout -- Conclusion: The Beginnings and Ends of Union Democracy -- Notes -- Interviews and Archival Sources -- Index.
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: ""To Get to Boeing, We First Had to Take on the Union""""; ""1. Business Unionism and Rank-and-File Unionism at the Turn of the Millennium""; ""2. Not a Smooth Flight for Boeing and the Union""; ""3. Enter the Dissidents""; ""4. The Problem with “Jointness�""; ""5. The 1995 Strike and the Rejection of the Second Contract""; ""6. “The Feeble Strength of One�""; ""7. Carrying the Memory of Agitation: A Dialogue between Keith Thomas and Dana Cloud""; ""8. Communication and Clout""
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""Conclusion: The Beginnings and Ends of Union Democracy""""Notes""; ""Interviews and Archival Sources ""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252093418
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252036378
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe We Are the Union : Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing
Language:
English
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