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Three strikes: labor's heartland losses and what they mean for working Americans

2002; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 39; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.39-3478

1943-5975

Stephen D. Franklin,

Labor Movements and Unions

Introduction: On Work, Writing about Work, and the Workers in Decatur. Part I: They Lead the Way. Destined to Do Right: Larry Solomon, Union Man, versus Caterpillar. Searching for a Strategy: Staley, a Small-Town Family Business, Goes Global. Labor's Savior?: Ray Rogers, Slayer of Corporate Battle Plans. A Leader for the New World Business Order: Don Fites Remakes Caterpillar's Ambitions. An Honest-to-Goodness Hard-Liner: Bill Casstevens, Career UAW Man. Part II: A Blue-Collar Legacy: Working in History's Wake. On the Prairie's Terms. Factory Town USA. The Great Industrial Slide and Washout: A Storm Cloud in American History? The Scab Ascendancy: How Weakened Unions Got Even Weaker. Part III: A Call to Arms. Sizing Up the Enemy. The New Paladins: Guardians at the Gates. Collapse and Surrender. A Historical Question: What If . . . ? Forming a Second Front: The Staley Workers Join the Fray. A Third Flank: The Tire Workers Go on Strike and the Beginning of the End of a Longtime Union. Part IV: Skirmishes and Sieges. Living amid Fear and Hatred: The Strikebreakers. The New Law of a Larger Land: The Gladiator Companies. No Help Here: The Trade Union Workers. Lost in a Maze: The NLRB. Part V: Rallying. Hit and Run at Caterpillar. Desperately Seeking Solutions. The Ballot Box Rebellion. The Road Warriors Meet the Labor Mandarins. Part VI: Surrender and Retreat. Slumbering into Oblivion. Still Waiting for Victory--Or Something. A Sad Armistice: The Staley Workers Lose Out. All Things Fall Apart: The Caterpillar Workers Suffer Defeat Too. An Unexpected Good-Bye: The Bridgestone/Firestone Workers Lose Some of Their History. Part VII: Heartfelt Losses. Unhealing Wounds. Leave No Bodies Behind: The Autoworkers Live Up to Their Word. Strategic Instincts: The Steelworkers Think Globally. Lost on Eldorado. Epilogue: Heartbreak in the Heartland.