Book chapter
Encouraging Membership Growth
Robust Unionism, p57
15 May 2019
Abstract
Although often lonely and enervating, organizing has always been “the sinews and lifeblood of the union.” Epitomizing labor robustness at its best, the organizer is a “secret agent, salesman, public relations expert, writer, human relations expert, and, above all, charismatic leader.”¹ The annals of organizing success crackle with examples of inventiveness and risk-taking, despite sometimes life-threatening opposition.
Organizing tallies, however, have disappointed labor since the 1955 merger of the AFL and CIO heightened expectations of new gains. Especially in the last decade, labor’s response, therefore, has included more varied and impressive campaigns than previously undertaken, and although the cost in
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- Title
- Encouraging Membership Growth
- Creators
- ARTHUR B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Robust Unionism, p57
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705447704721