The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements
ISBN: 9781501722578
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States; Social movements -- United States;

The U.S. labor movement may be on the verge of massive growth, according to Dan Clawson. He argues that unions don't grow slowly and incrementally, but rather in bursts. Even if the AFL-CIO could organize twice as many members per year as it now...


Dan Clawson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts. His books include Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence (coauthored with Alan Neustadtl and Denise Scott) and Dollars and Votes: How Corporate Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy (coauthored with Alan Neustadtl and Mark Weller).

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