Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement

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Judith Stepan-Norris (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine) Jasmine Kerrissey (Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Union Booms and Busts

The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement

Judith Stepan-Norris (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine), Jasmine Kerrissey (Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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Oxford University Press Inc
06 September 2023

Institutions & learned societies: general; Social issues & processes

Union Booms and Busts takes a bird's eye view of the shifting fortunes of U.S. workers and their unions on the one hand, and employers and their organizations on the other. Using detailed data, this book analyses union density across 11 industries and 115 years, contrasting the organizing and union building successes and failures across decades. With attention to historical developments and the economic, political, and legal contexts of each period, it highlights workers' and their unions' actions, including strikes, union elections, and organizing strategies as well those of employers, who aimed to disrupt union organizing using legal maneuvers, workforce-based strategies, and race and gender divisions. By demonstrating how workers used strikes, elections, and other strategies to win power and employers used legal maneuvers, workforce-based strategies, and race and gender divisions to disrupt unions, the authors reveal data-driven truths about the ongoing history of unionization.

Chapters follow time periods: the early unregulated period where unions took hold in only a handful of industries; the mid-century regulated period where strikes, elections, and union density grew across industries; and the later dis-regulated period where union trajectories diverged, with some industries seeing drastic decline and others holding steady. The book concludes by turning toward what might come next for workers and unions in America and provides access to on-line data for readers who want to take a closer look

By: Judith Stepan-Norris (Professor of Sociology Professor of Sociology University of California Irvine), Jasmine Kerrissey (Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197539859
ISBN 10: 0197539858
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 06 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Judith Stepan-Norris is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research addresses U.S. labor unions (internal democracy, politics, effectiveness) and gender equity in higher education. She is the co-author of Left Out and Talking Union (both with Maurice Zeitlin) as well as many scholarly articles. Jasmine Kerrissey is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Kerrissey's research examines the historical and contemporary role of labor movements in shaping working conditions, inequality, and politics.

Reviews for Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement

An ambitious venture through relatively well-trodden ground: the rise and fall of the American labor movement...Recommended. General readers. * Choice *