The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront

by David Wellman and Wellman, David Wellman, David

Book Overview

American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521629683
• ISBN13: 9780521629683
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"