TY - BOOK ID - 2935427 TI - Hard work : remaking the American labor movement AU - Fantasia, Rick. AU - Voss, Kim. PY - 2004 SN - 0520240901 0520240138 0520937716 1597346470 1282763008 9786612763007 9780520937710 9780520240131 9780520240902 9781597346474 1417545119 9781417545117 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Labor movement KW - Labor unions KW - Industrial relations KW - Bureaucracy KW - Mouvement ouvrier KW - Syndicats KW - Relations industrielles KW - Bureaucratie KW - Social aspects KW - Management KW - Aspect social KW - Administration KW - Bureaucracy - United States. KW - Industrial relations - United States. KW - Labor movement - United States. KW - Labor movement-- United States. KW - Labor unions - Social aspects - United States. KW - Labor unions - United States - Management. KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Business & Economics KW - Management. KW - Industrial unions KW - Labor, Organized KW - Labor organizations KW - Organized labor KW - Trade-unions KW - Unions, Labor KW - Unions, Trade KW - Working-men's associations KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Societies KW - Central labor councils KW - Guilds KW - Syndicalism KW - Social movements KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2935427 AB - This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America. Hard Work begins with a comparison of the very different conditions that prevail for labor in the United States and in Europe. What emerges is a picture of an American labor movement forced to operate on terrain shaped by powerful corporations, a weak state, and an inhospitable judicial system. What also emerges is a picture of an American worker that has virtually disappeared from the American social imagination. Recently, however, the authors find that a new kind of unionism-one that more closely resembles a social movement-has begun to develop from the shell of the old labor movement. Looking at the cities of Los Angeles and Las Vegas they point to new practices that are being developed by innovative unions to fight corporate domination, practices that may well signal a revival of unionism and the emergence of a new social imagination in the United States. ER -