American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena

by Eric S. Ripley, Herbert B. Heberlig, Randall B. Snyder

Are contemporary U.S. labor unions irrelevant, or in fact a changing force to be reckoned with as they grow into a new economy in a globalized America? Is the current political power exercised by U.S. labor unions more akin to the social movements of the sixties or the interest politics of the nineties? After winning the presidency of the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney and his colleagues have taken strides to make labor more important in the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847688658
• ISBN13: 9780847688654
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"