Book chapter
Solidarity with Professional Employees
Robust Unionism
15 May 2019
Abstract
To prosper in the 1990s, labor has to achieve unprecedented success in organizing professional employees, the fastest growing occupational group in the country. Conventional wisdom mistakenly holds that unions have little or no appeal to actors, doctors, engineers, journalists, librarians, musicians, nurses, performing artists, and athletes. But, in fact, as many as 29 percent of these professionals are already in trade unions, compared to 17 percent of all American workers. Twenty-nine different unions are now actively involved with the AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees (DPE), the country’s largest interdisciplinary group of professionals.
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Details
- Title
- Solidarity with Professional Employees
- 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
- 991020705434004721