Book chapter
“Reorganizing” Members
Robust Unionism
15 May 2019
Abstract
If labor journalist Abe Raskin can be trusted as a guide, then “reorganizing the organized must transcend all other union priorities if those inside, but divorced from any sense of genuine involvement, are to become bona fide trade unionists.”¹ Without internal revival, Raskin warned in 1986, all of labor’s other good intentions will falter and probably fail.
Controversy runs deep on this issue. Forty years ago, the strongest case for reorganizing was argued by Frank Tannenbaum in his seminal work, A Philosophy of Labor. Labor, Tannenbaum urged, should promote the close identification by members of the union as their "family"
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- Title
- “Reorganizing” Members
- 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
- 991020705366804721