Book chapter
Providing More Effective Service
Robust Unionism
15 May 2019
Abstract
Community service remains organized labor’s best-kept secret, both inside and outside the labor movement.¹ Otherwise competent labor histories, such as those by Foster Rhea Dulles (1955), Gus Tyler (1967), and, most recently, Seymour Martin Lipset (1986), do not mention the subject at all.² Similarly, as recently as 1985, the AFL-CIO News, the federation’s main vehicle for communicating with its affiliates, ran an average of fewer than one article per issue on the topic. Even the highly acclaimed book What Do Unions Do? (1984) ignored labor’s remarkable record of service to the community.³ There is evidence, however, that the subject is
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Details
- Title
- Providing More Effective Service
- 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
- 991020705371504721