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Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century
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Description: A collection of previously unpublished articles that provide a fresh and innovative approach to the dynamics of labor's decline, with proposals for policy initiatives that can revitalize labor. The book looks closely at the restructuring of capitalism in response to the corporate profitability issue and how class relations have been affected by this restructuring. Contributors include the editors, David C. Ranney, Norman Eiger, Michele I. Naples, David Fairris, Victor G. Devinatz, Philip Garrahan and Paul Stewart, Vernon Mogenson, Elaine Bernard and David Schultz.
Selected Contents:
Introduction, In Search of the Lost Cord: The Crisis of American Labor, The Editors
Global Competition and the Proliferation of the Labor Movement: Wage Labor and Capital Beyond the Nation-State, Cyrus Bina and Chuck Davis
The Politics of Privatization: Farewell to the Great Society, Laurie Clements
Raising Wages Under Capitalist Competition: An Argument for "New Directions," Howard Botwinick
Labor and Today's Global Economic Crisis: An Historical View, David C. Ranney
Women, the Labor Movement and the American Economy, Heidi Hartmann
The Past, Present and Future of Mass-Production Shop Floor Relations, David Fairris
An Alternative Trade Union Strategy to the Institutionalization of Collective Bargaining: Lessons from the UAW Local 6 and the FE, 1946-1952, Vicotr G. Devinatz
Work, Locality and Unions, Philip Garrahan and Paul Stewart
The Social Structure of Accumulation for Coal Labor Relations: From World War II to the Pittson Strike and Implications Beyond, Michele I. Naples
The Swedish Model: From the Cradle to the Grave? Norm Eiger
Management Resistance to Change: Case Study Results in the Introduction of Computer Information Systems, Elaine Bernard
Video Display Terminals and the Deskilling of Work in the "Office of the Future," Vernon Mogensen
Labor and Community Challenges to Disinvestment: The Use of Eminent Domain and Community Property Rights to Fight Plant Closings, David Schultz
Comment(s): "It is an excellent application of Marxist political economy to contemporary labour market issues in the light of recent globalisation trends." -- Ben Fine, University of London
"This ambitious study addresses some of the most important issues of the contemporary period, combining close and informative analysis of crucial cases with insightful analytic perspectives. It also sketches guidelines for constructive action to counter state-corporate policies that are imposing on the United States something of the structure of a sharply two-tiered Third World society. A valuable and thought-provoking contribution that is very welcome." -- Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Review(s): Eleven essays addressing a concern for depressed and exploited labor in a global economy and seeking alternatives to the traditional capitalist models. Reference & Research Book News
Beyond Survival is framed in part by a polemic against theories of monopoly capitalism and against analyses which emphasize the continuing centrality of nation states and national capital in global struggles. But is is quite flexible in including insights from other traditions and is a book from which those who regard globalization as a long and uneven tendency, and not just a stage in capitalism can learn much. ... Argued with intelligence, passion, and care. Labor Studies Journal
    
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