Same as it ever was? The structure of the working class

Monthly Review

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 31-45

  Meiksins, Peter ^a  

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EID: 0346543459     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-049-03-1997-07_3     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. See Barbara Reskin and Patricia Roos, Job Queues, Gender Queues (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).
2. Teresa A. Sullivan, "Women and Minority Workers in the New Economy," Work and Occupations Vol. 16 No.4 (1989)
3. Dorothy Sue Cobble, Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1993), p. 14
4. See Laurie Graham, On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1995), for a good description of the harsh side of Japanese management in the United States.
5. See Dorothy Sue Cobble, "Organizing the Postindustrial Work Force: Lessons From the History of Waitress Unionism", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 44 No.3 (1991), pp. 419-36, for an analysis of the ways in which Taft-Hartley eliminated some of the variety in union organization.
6. Ruth Milkman, "Organizing the Sexual Division of Labor: Historical Perspectives on 'Women's Work' and the American Labor Movement," Socialist Review 10 (1981): pp.95-151.
7. See Dorothy Sue Cobble, "Organizing the Post-Industrial Workforce", op. cit., and Chris Tilly, Half a Job (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996) ch. 8.
8. See Dorothy Sue Cobble, "Organizing the Post-Industrial Workforce", op. cit., and Chris Tilly, Half a Job (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996) ch. 8.
9. See Peter Meiksins and Chris Smith, "Why American Engineers Aren't Unionized," Theory and Society 22 (1993), pp. 57-97 for a discussion of this and other obstacles to unionization in the case of engineering.
10. For example, Guillermo Grenier, Inhuman Relations (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988).
11. See Peter Meiksins and Chris Smith, Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective (London: Verso Books, 1996), especially chapters 1 and 9, for an extended statement of this argument.
12. See Meiksins and Smith, "Why American Engineers Aren''t Unionized," op. cit., for a discussion of this episode.
13. Some of Gramsci's early writings on Turinese factory councils are collected in Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Political Writings, 1910-1920 (New York: International Publishers, 1977).
14. See Mike Rustin, For a Pluralist Socialism (London: Verso Books, 1995), for a view of the Lucas episode as a prefiguring of a challenge to the capitalist organization of production.
15. See John Sweeney, America Needs a Raise (New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1996), especially chapter 2.
16. See "Challenging Corporate Power," In These Times, April 28-May 11, 1997, p. 2 for a recent example of the formation of a doctor's union. This article tends to play down the differences between such unions and those of more subordinate workers. For a more sustained, somewhat hostile analysis of professional unions, see Bob Carter, Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class (London: Routledge, 1985).
17. See "Challenging Corporate Power," In These Times, April 28-May 11, 1997, p. 2 for a recent example of the formation of a doctor's union. This article tends to play down the differences between such unions and those of more subordinate workers. For a more sustained, somewhat hostile analysis of professional unions, see Bob Carter, Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class (London: Routledge, 1985).