Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by
Solidarity divided : the crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0520261569 0520255259 9786612359422 1282359428 0520934741 9780520934740 9780520255258 9781282359420 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart changes in U.S. manufacturing, examine the onslaught of globalization, consider the influence of the environment on labor, and provide the first broad analysis of the fallout from the 2000 and 2004 elections on the U.S. labor movement. Ultimately calling for a wide-ranging reexamination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of today's labor movement, this is essential reading for understanding how the battle for social justice can be fought and won.

The crisis of imprisonment : protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
Author:
ISBN: 9780521537834 9780521830966 0521830966 0521537835 9780511511721 051138999X 1107174627 9786611370459 0511394063 0511393261 0511511728 0511390750 1281370452 0511391951 0511394713 9780511394713 9780511394065 9781107174627 9781281370457 6611370455 9780511393266 9780511391958 9780511390753 Year: 2008 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits of state power, the influence of market forces, the role of unfree labor, and the 'just deserts' of wrongdoers. McLennan also explores the system that existed between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she discusses the rehabilitation model that has primarily characterized the penal system in the twentieth century. Unearthing fresh evidence from prison and state archives, McLennan shows how, in each of three distinct periods of crisis, widespread dissent culminated in the dismantling of old systems of imprisonment.

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by