What has happened to the us labor movement? Union decline and renewal

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 25, Issue , 1999, Pages 95-119

  Clawson, Dan ^a   Clawson, Mary Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AFL CIO; Employer anti union offensive; Labor movement future; Labor organizing; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041987994     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.25.1.95     Document Type: Article

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