Fighting For Jobs: Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings

Author:   Bruce Nissen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791425688


Pages:   215
Publication Date:   17 August 1995
Format:   Paperback
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Fighting For Jobs: Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings


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Author:   Bruce Nissen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780791425688


ISBN 10:   0791425681
Pages:   215
Publication Date:   17 August 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Chronologies 1. Introduction 2. Military Conversion and the Shutdown of the Blaw-Knox Steel Foundry 3. Public Subsidy Abuse at the Combustion Engineering Plant 4. Successorship and Managerial Competence at the Stratojac Plant 5. Struggle to Reopen the Hammond LTV Bar Mill 6. Preventing a Department Relocation at the LaSalle Steel Plant 7. Comparing the Cases: Critical Factors 8. Problem Definition, Alliance Formation, Mobilization, and the Significance of Labor-Community Coalitions Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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""Fighting for Jobs shows the unrecognized promise of community-labor coalitions resisting the destruction of good jobs and local economies. Its thoroughly researched case studies and clear analysis will be invaluable for academics, policy analysts, and grassroots activists.


Fighting for Jobs shows the unrecognized promise of community-labor coalitions resisting the destruction of good jobs and local economies. Its thoroughly researched case studies and clear analysis will be invaluable for academics, policy analysts, and grassroots activists.


Fighting for Jobs shows the unrecognized promise of community-labor coalitions resisting the destruction of good jobs and local economies. Its thoroughly researched case studies and clear analysis will be invaluable for academics, policy analysts, and grassroots activists. </i Fighting for Jobs reveals what the issue of 'good jobs' is really all about. - Jeremy Brecher, co-author of Global Village or Global Pillage; co-editor of Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community I am extremely enthusiastic about the book from a variety of perspectives: it is well written and accessible; it addresses a significant issue facing U.S. working people and their communities; it evaluates the roles of corporations, governments, unions, and community organizations and coalitions as they engage in struggle over whether and how plants should close. It is a significant advance over the existent plant closing literature. - Harry R. Targ, Purdue University The key contribution of the author is his insight as an activist who was actively involved in the plant closings he writes about. He has a privileged access to a sensitive and volatile situation that might not have been available to more traditional researchers. His insights into the internal operations of Calumet Project are also unique. I can't think of another book in the field that knits together several case studies with such care and also provides a framework for understanding their common underpinnings. - Michael Wallace, Indiana University


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Bruce Nissen is Associate Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University, Northwest.

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