Book chapter
Improving Public Relations
Robust Unionism
15 May 2019
Abstract
Labor has long understood that the struggle to shape the image of a movement is a critical and often decisive one. Historically, it has used the media of the day to improve its image, share information, and boost morale. Archives at the Meany Center contain fragile labor newspapers published in the early 1880s; radio tapes made by labor personalities such as William Green, John R. Lewis, and Philip Murray; films used in pioneering labor education projects in the 1940s; and videotapes of labor’s fledgling television ads in the early 1980s. The Chicago Federation of Labor owned and operated an AM
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Details
- Title
- Improving Public Relations
- Creators
- ARTHUR B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Robust Unionism
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705361904721