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How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence
McGraw-Hill
September 2008
On Sale: August 27, 2008
276 pages
ISBN: 0071488448
EAN: 9780071488440
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers,
actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for
more than one third of the American workforce. At a mere 12
percent, union membership today is a shadow of what it once
was. What happened to organized labor in America and what
can be done to restore it to its role of the defender of
middle-class values and economic well-being? Award-winning investigative reporter Philip M. Dine takes us
on a riveting journey through America's cities and back
roads, its factories and union halls, to answer those
questions. From the health care crisis to massive job flight
overseas, from rampant home foreclosures to illegal
immigration, he clearly shows how virtually every major
economic, political, and social trend impacting our way of
life is tied to the state of America's unions. Combining a compelling narrative with expert analysis, Dine
offers firsthand accounts of the union members striving to
make their voices heard in a political landscape
increasingly shaped by corporate interests, including how: * The women of Delta Pride-a major player in the
multi-billion dollar catfish industry-went up against
generations of racial and economic prejudice
* Iowa's firefighters union flexed its collective muscle
to score a major political victory in the 2004 caucus
* The American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO
played a key role in bringing down the Iron Curtain
* The Teamsters enlisted community support to
temporarily stop a move by Mr. Coffee to relocate to Mexico
and saved nearly 400 manufacturing jobs in the Cleveland area A reporter who has covered labor for two decades, Dine not
only details where labor has gone wrong, but he also offers
sage advice on how it can adapt to a global economy to
recover the ground it lost
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