Hard pressed in the Heartland

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Hard pressed in the Heartland

Author	: Peter J. Rachleff
File Size	: 42,8 Mb
Publisher	: South End Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 May 1993
ISBN	: 0896084507
Pages	: 148 pages

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Hard pressed in the Heartland by Peter J. Rachleff Book PDF Summary

Hard-Pressed in the Heartland tells the heartbreaking but empowering story of a spirited local union trying to resist management's drive for concessions--while fending off a conservative national union leadership unwilling to support its own members. Going beyond academic history, it offers useful perspectives for rebuilding a democratic, militant, community-based unionism that can succeed where today's bureaucratic unionism cannot.

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