Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Richard D. Kahlenberg, Moshe Marvit Издательство: Страниц: 160 ISBN: 0870785230
Описание
American society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded ?in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth. One reason for the labor movement's collapse is the existence of weak labor laws that, for example, impose only minimal penalties on employers who illegally fire workers for trying to organize a union. Attempts to reform labor law have fallen short because labor is caught in a political box: To achieve reform, labor needs the political power that comes from expanding union membership; to grow, however, unions need labor law reform. Labor Organizing as a Civil Right lays out the case for a new approach, one that takes the issue beyond the confines of labor law by amending the Civil Rights Act so that it prohibits discrimination against workers trying to organize a union. The authors argue that this...
