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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463995203321

Autore

Rhomberg Chris <1959->

Titolo

The broken table : the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor / / Chris Rhomberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Russell Sage Foundation, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-61044-775-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 387 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

331.892/977434

Soggetti

Newspaper Strike, Detroit, Michigan, 1995-2000

Strikes and lockouts - Newspapers - Michigan - Detroit

Collective bargaining - Newspapers - Michigan - Detroit

Newspaper employees - Labor unions - Michigan - Detroit

Newspaper publishing - Michigan - Detroit

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Labor Day in America -- Worlds of work: economy and civil society. The industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder -- Detroit: labor and community -- A "daily miracle": the life of the workplace -- The institutional regulation of labor. Proper channels: U.S. labor law and union-management relations -- The path to confrontation: the newspapers' joint operating agreement in Detroit -- Extraordinary measures: planning for war -- War of position: the 1995 contract negotiations -- The spaces of conflict. Worlds collide: the start of the strike -- Law and violence: permanent replacements and the control of collective action -- Theaters of engagement: state and civil society -- Waiting for justice: the return to work and the end of the strike -- Governing the workplace: American labor today. Conclusion: a signal juncture.

Sommario/riassunto

"In The Broken Table, Chris Rhomberg sees the Detroit strike as a historic collision of two opposing forces: a system in place since the New Deal governing disputes between labor and management and decades of increasingly aggressive corporate efforts to eliminate



unions."--Jacket.