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- Book Title
- Heartland Blues: Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest
- Publication Date
- 2020-12-07
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780190917036
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190917032
ISBN-13
9780190917036
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6050034813
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Publication Name
Heartland Blues : Labor Rights in the Industrial MidWest
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Subject
General, Economics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
6.2 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-020749
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Marc Dixon's excellent Heartland Blues goes beyond existing labor scholarship on the 1950s to examine the dimensions of labor's weakness in its geographic and sectoral areas of greatest strength ... this is an important book, "Marc Dixon's excellent Heartland Blues goes beyond existing labor scholarship on the 1950s to examine the dimensions of labor's weakness in its geographic and sectoral areas of greatest strength ... this is an important book" -- Steven H. Lopez, American Journal of Sociology
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
331.88097709045
Table Of Content
List of Figures and Tables Preface1. Back to the Future 2. The Capital-Labor Accord in Action 3. Union Discord in Indiana 4. Flipping the Script in Ohio 5. The Insider Route in Wisconsin 6. A Holding Pattern in the Midwest 7. Labor Rights in the Era of Union Decline Bibliography Notes
Synopsis
The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state.In Heartland Blues, Marc Dixon provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the late 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he analyzes campaigns over key labor policies as they were waged in the heavily unionized states of Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin - the very same states at the center of more recent battles over labor rights. He shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for less powerful groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at the time, but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. Thus, the labor movement's social and political isolation and their limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the ensuing decades, as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide.Showing how labor rights have been challenged in significant ways in the industrial Midwest in the 1950s, Heartland Blues both identifies enduring problems for labor and forces scholars to look beyond size when seeking clues to labor's failures and successes., The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state.In Heartland Blues, Marc Dixon provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the late 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he analyzes campaigns over key labor policies as they were waged in the heavily unionized states of Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin-the very same states at the center of more recent battles over labor rights. He shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for less powerful groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at the time, but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. Thus, the labor movement's social and political isolation and their limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the ensuing decades, as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide.Showing how labor rights have been challenged in significant ways in the industrial Midwest in the 1950s, Heartland Blues both identifies enduring problems for labor and forces scholars to look beyond size when seeking clues to labor's failures and successes., The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state. In Heartland Blues , Marc Dixon provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the late 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he analyzes campaigns over key labor policies as they were waged in the heavily unionized states of Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin-the very same states at the center of more recent battles over labor rights. He shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for less powerful groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at the time, but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. Thus, the labor movement's social and political isolation and their limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the ensuing decades, as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide. Showing how labor rights have been challenged in significant ways in the industrial Midwest in the 1950s, Heartland Blues both identifies enduring problems for labor and forces scholars to look beyond size when seeking clues to labor's failures and successes., In Heartland Blues, Marc Dixon sheds a new light on unions, their evolution, and eventual decline in the United States by revisiting the labor movement in the 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he follows campaigns over labor rights in the industrial Midwest, demonstrating how union divisions, unreliable political allies, and substantial employer opposition all combined to slow the labor movement at its historical peak.
LC Classification Number
HD8083.M53.D59 2020
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