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Reorganizing the Rust Belt

An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement

by Steven Henry Lopez

  • 292 Want to read
  • 36 Currently reading

Published by University of California Press .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Sociology, Social Studies,
  • Sociology - General,
  • Pittsburgh,
  • Labor movement,
  • Social Science,
  • Sociology,
  • Reference,
  • General,
  • Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions,
  • Social Science / Sociology / General,
  • Case studies,
  • Labor unions,
  • Pennsylvania,
  • Service industries workers

  • The Physical Object
    FormatHardcover
    Number of Pages314
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL7711382M
    ISBN 100520232801
    ISBN 109780520232808

    Jackson's book draws on the author's 24 years as a rank-and-filer in SEIU Loc , and 3 (one of which we meet, in Reorganizing The Rust Belt, as "Local A"). Jackson has had first-hand exposure to what Lopez calls "a new vision of participatory, powerful unionism" but she has not found it to be an improvement upon "the old-style business. Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press. • Winner, Sociology of Labor Book Award, American Sociological Association. • Author Meets Critics, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August • Special symposium, Labor History, July

    Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement Steven Henry Lopez Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, , pp. This book purportedly is a study of the trials and tribulations of organized labor in the United States with particular emphasis on the Pittsburgh area. This is certainly an inter-.   It is astonishing in its scope, ranging effortlessly from the minutiae of shop floor life to the heights of comparative national political and economic history, from breezily personal (and often amusing) to a brilliant reconstruction of social theory."—Steven Henry Lopez, Ohio State University and author of Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An.

      The working class of the Rust Belt has been in its death throes for decades. Deindustrialization first began to take hold with the “Southern Strategy” of American manufacturers who moved to the southern United States where “right to work” laws ensure an environment that is hostile to unions. But Japanese competition accelerated the problem. The states in the entire northern Midwest rust belt—Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio, a list that sounds like a roll call of states that benefited most from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal—all stood within a percentage point of being swept by Republicans, Author: James Straub.


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"Reorganizing the Rust Belt is the best ethnography around of what it's like, day-to-day, to be inside an organizing campaign and contract mobilization.

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Lopez brings to life the limits and problems, the changes over time, the victories and ambiguities, experienced by workers and organizers in a progressive union."--Dan Clawson, author of The /5(8).

Reorganizing the Rust Belt argues that the key to the success of social movement unionism lies in its ability to confront a series of dilemmas rooted in the history of American labor relations. Lopez shows how the union's ability to devise creative solutions—rather than the adoption of specific tactics—makes the difference between success Price: $ "Rust Belt" is an informal term for a region of the United States that has been experiencing industrial decline starting around It is made up largely of the Great Lakes Megalopolis, though definitions vary.

Rust refers to the deindustrialization, or economic decline, population loss, and urban decay due to the shrinking of its once-powerful industrial sector. Book Review: Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement.

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