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Cultures of solidarity : consciousness, action, and contemporary American workers
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ISBN: 0520060539 9780520060531 0520067959 9780520067950 9786612355615 1282355619 0520909674 9780520909670 Year: 1988 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a young sociologist takes the prevailing assumptions to task and sheds new light upon this very important issue. In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.

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Working class --- Labor unions --- Labor disputes --- Class consciousness --- Travailleurs --- Syndicats --- Travail --- Conscience de classe --- History --- Case studies. --- Histoire --- Conflits --- Cas, Etudes de --- Actions, Job --- Disputes, Labor --- Industrial disputes --- Job actions --- Industrial relations --- Law and legislation --- United States --- Consciousness --- Social perception --- Social classes --- #SBIB:316.334.2A419 --- 316.343.63 --- 316.344.24 --- 316.344.24 Beroepsstratificatie. Professionalisering. Beroepsprestige. Beroepsstatus. Professie --- Beroepsstratificatie. Professionalisering. Beroepsprestige. Beroepsstatus. Professie --- 316.343.63 Arbeidersstand. Proletariaat. Landarbeiders --(sociale stratificatie) --- Arbeidersstand. Proletariaat. Landarbeiders --(sociale stratificatie) --- Arbeidssociologie: Europees en wereldsyndicalisme --- activism. --- american exceptionalism. --- american workers. --- business economics. --- capitalism. --- class consciousness. --- class. --- collective action. --- collective bargaining. --- collectivism. --- ethnic differences. --- factory workers. --- labor and work. --- labor industrial relations. --- labor. --- marxist theory. --- nonfiction. --- organizations. --- political history. --- political science. --- race. --- racial differences. --- racism. --- rank and file. --- social movements. --- social science. --- social theory. --- solidarity. --- the economy. --- union meetings. --- unions. --- wildcat strikes. --- workers. --- working class.

Hard work : remaking the American labor movement
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ISBN: 0520240901 0520240138 0520937716 1597346470 1282763008 9786612763007 9780520937710 9780520240131 9780520240902 9781597346474 1417545119 9781417545117 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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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.

Homelessness : a sourcebook
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ISBN: 0816025711 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Facts on File

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Des syndicats domestiqués : répression patronale et résistance syndicale aux États-unis
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ISBN: 2912107164 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris : Raisons d'agir,

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Le "modèle" économique américain tant vanté en Europe est une illusion d'optique, entretenue à la fois par la presse et les milieux d'affaires. L'exception américaine, loin d'être le produit d'un système économique miraculeux, est en fait la conséquence de la destruction programmée de toute forme d'organisation et de protection du travail : la culture politique et le droit américains ont peu à peu démantelé les mouvements syndicaux de contestation sociale. Voyage dans l'Amérique oubliée des travailleurs ordinaires : ceux qui louent des garages pour survivre à Silicon Valley, ceux qui, coincés dans des box minuscules, emballent les livres pour Amazon.com, ceux qui doivent cumuler deux ou trois emplois sous-payés pour se maintenir juste au-dessus du seuil de pauvreté. La fameuse "exception américaine" repose en réalité sur l'exceptionnelle toute-puissance des dirigeants d'entreprises, c'est-à-dire sur l'extraordinaire faiblesse organisée des syndicats américains. Pourtant, ce travail, mené par deux sociologues américains, n'annonce pas la fin du mouvement syndical aux Etat-Unis. Il fait apparaître au contraire l'émergence d'un syndicalisme d'action et de contestation sociale, assumant sa dimension politique et sa volonté de lutter pour imposer une plus grande justice sociale.

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