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Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics

Labor Politics in American Life

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. William Form

    1. The Ohio State University, Columbus

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Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  3. Labor Politics in Three Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Economy, Politics, and Labor in Three Cities

      Pages 89-117

    3. Cleveland

      Pages 119-149

    4. Cincinnati

      Pages 151-181

    5. Columbus

      Pages 183-217

    6. Labor-Party Relations in Three Cities

      Pages 219-234

    7. Labor, Community, and State Politics

      Pages 235-255

  4. Labor in National Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Bargaining in the Democratic Party

      Pages 259-291

    3. Labor Politics in Washington

      Pages 293-320

    4. Organizational Reform or Movement Revival?

      Pages 321-336

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 337-377
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About this book

My curiosity and concern about the working class in America stems from childhood memories of my father, a cabinetmaker, and of my oldest brother, an autoworker, who were passionately involved in the labor movement. Perhaps because they so wanted the working class to achieve greater social and economic justice and because they insisted it was not happening, I became curious to know the reasons why. Without even being aware of it, I began to explore a possible explanation—the internal diver­ sity of the working class. In my studies of autoworkers (the prototype proletarians) in the United States, Italy, Argentina, and India, I discovered that they seemed to be more divided economically, socially, and politically in the more eco­ nomically advanced countries—an idea that ran contrary to the evolution­ ary predictions of my Marxist friends. When I reported this in Blue-Collar Stratification (1976), I was surprised that some of them who were commit­ ted to an ideology of working-class solidarity attacked the hypothesis because it ran against their convictions.

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`Offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive sociological account of contemporary labor politics to appear in the last two decades... will be read and appreciated by students of labor and politics and... men and women who now preside over the American labor movement.'
Contemporary Sociology

`Well-researched and well-written volume... This insightful analysis of unions and politics is highly recommended for students and scholars in sociology, political science, labor history, and industrial relations.'
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Authors and Affiliations

  • The Ohio State University, Columbus

    William Form

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics

  • Book Subtitle: Labor Politics in American Life

  • Authors: William Form

  • Series Title: Springer Studies in Work and Industry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102395

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45031-0Due: 31 August 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7015-5Published: 10 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-28764-5Published: 27 July 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 380

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Political Science, Sociology, general

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