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UNINA9910463995203321 |
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Rhomberg Chris <1959-> |
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Titolo |
The broken table : the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor / / Chris Rhomberg |
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New York : , : Russell Sage Foundation, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 387 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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"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 |
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