The broken table : the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor / / Chris Rhomberg
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| Autore: |
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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| 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.: | 9910788627703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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