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Autore: | Rhomberg Chris <1959-> |
Titolo: | The broken table : the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor / / Chris Rhomberg |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Russell Sage Foundation, , [2012] |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 387 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina: | 331.892/977434 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The broken table |
ISBN: | 1-61044-775-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812588203321 |
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