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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      July 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511522178
      9780521365161
      9780521025836
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522178
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.608kg, 328 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.488kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Human Geography, Geography
      Series:
      Cambridge Human Geography
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    Human Geography, Geography
    Series:
    Cambridge Human Geography
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    The essential argument of this book is that the current crisis of US unions ought to be considered in terms of the local context of labor-management relations; that is, the communities in which men and women live and work. Whether by design or necessity, the structure of New Deal national labor legislation has sustained, and maintained, distinctive local labor-management practices. As the economies of American communities (and the world) have become highly interdependent, reflecting the evolution of corporate structure and trade between economies, unions movement can be traced to unions' dependence upon inter-community solidarity, a fragile democratic ideal which is often overwhelmed by economic imperatives operating at higher scales in other places. An important objective of Professor Clark in this work is to demonstrate the significance of the intersection between communities, unions, and institutions, in understanding the prospects for American unionism.

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