An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism

by Kim Moody

Book Overview

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO's conservative ideology of "business unionism" effectively disarmed unions in the face of a domestic right turn and an epochal shift to globalized production. Eschewing alliances with new social forces in favor of its old Cold War...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860919293
• ISBN13: 9780860919292
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"