Hard-Pressed in the Heartland The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement |
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Author:
| Rachleff, Peter |
ISBN: | 978-0-89608-450-6 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1999 |
Publisher: | South End Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $13.00 |
Book Description:
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Hard-Pressed in the Heartland tells the heartbreaking but empowering story of a spirited local union trying to resist management's drive for concessions--while fending off a conservative national union leadership unwilling to support its own members. Going beyond academic history, it offers useful perspectives for rebuilding a democratic, militant, community-based unionism that can succeed where today's bureaucratic unionism cannot.
Hard-Pressed in the Heartland tells the heartbreaking but empowering story of a spirited local union trying to resist management's drive for concessions--while fending off a conservative national union leadership unwilling to support its own members. Going beyond academic history, it offers useful perspectives for rebuilding a democratic, militant, community-based unionism that can succeed where today's bureaucratic unionism cannot.