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Presenting ethnographic data and analysis drawn from eight case studies from diverse industries in the United States and abroad, the contributors to The Anthropology of Labor Unions provide a variety of perspectives on this paradox, including discussions of approaches to and findings on the historie...

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Other Authors: Durrenberger, E. Paul (Editor), Reichart, Karaleah S. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2012.
Subjects:
Labor unions > United States > History.
Labor unions > Political activity > History.
Labor unions > History.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah Reichart
  • 2. Miners, women, and community coalitions in the UMWA Pittston Strike / Karaleah Reichart
  • 3. Is this what democracy looks like? / E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem
  • 4. With God on everyone's side : truth telling and toxic words among Methodists and organized farmworkers in North Carolina / Sandi Smith-Nonini
  • 5. Buying out the union : jobs as property and the UAW / Peter Richardson
  • 6. Approaching industrial democracy in nonunion mines : lessons from Wyoming's Powder River basin / Jessica M. Smith
  • 7. Small places, close to home : the importance of place in organizing workers / Lydia Savage
  • 8. Economic globalization and changing capital-labor relations in Baja California's fresh-produce industry / Christian Zlolniski
  • 9. The tobacco trap : obstacles to trade unionism in Malawi / Marty Otañez
  • 10. Concluding thoughts / Karen Brodkin
  • 11. Afterword / E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah Reichart.

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