Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 561 g
Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 561 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-62968-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant, democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and conflict will proceed.
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Preface; Notes on unpublished sources; Part I. Labour Radicalism Revisited: 1. Unsettling old scores: labour radicalism encounters conventional wisdom; 2. Sealing the fate of radical labour theoretically; 3. A framework for American unionism; Part II. Local Community and 'Tumultuous' Democracy: the Socio-Cultural Foundations of Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront: 4. Political community on the San Francisco waterfront; 5. The structure of participationist politics; 6. Being political in Local 10; Part III. Unionism, Work and Technological Change: 7. Work, knowledge and control: conventional longshoring; 8. Work, knowledge and control: containerised longshoring; 9. 'Doing the right thing': working principles and codes of conduct; Part IV. Waging the Battle for Workplace Control on Contractual Terrain: 10. Who decides how to work?; 11. Which side's language shall govern?; 12. By whose principles will merit be rewarded?; Part V. Agreeing to Disagree: Being Defensibly Disobedient: 13. Translating troubles into grievable issues; 14. 'We essentially have no contract with you': keeping the agreement; 15. Constructing and maintaining the appearance of co-operation; Conclusion: Trade union exceptionalism or prefigurative politics?; Appendix: doing field research - an ethnographic account; References; Name index; Subject index.
