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The essential argument of this book is that the current crisis of US unions ought to be considered in terms of the local context of labor-management relations; that is, the communities in which men and women live and work. Whether by design or necessity, the structure of New Deal national labor legislation has sustained, and maintained, distinctive local labor-management practices. As the economies of American communities (and the world) have become highly interdependent, reflecting the evolution of corporate structure and trade between economies, unions movement can be traced to unions' dependence upon inter-community solidarity, a fragile democratic ideal which is often overwhelmed by economic imperatives operating at higher scales in other places. An important objective of Professor Clark in this work is to demonstrate the significance of the intersection between communities, unions, and institutions, in understanding the prospects for American unionism.
Chapter
Patterns of union representation elections
2 Understanding union growth and decline
Institutions and unionization
Modeling representation elections
Understanding organized labor
PART II DRAMA OF ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING
3 Communities and corporate location strategies
A plant closing in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Relocation as a corporate strategy
Fragility of union solidarity
Community economic development
4 Rationing jobs within the union, between communities
Institutional context of restructuring
Essentials of the dispute
Local 12 as an autonomous agent
Local unions as bilateral partners
The International as collective agent
Political coherence of the union
PART III UNION PERFORMANCE IN REPRESENTATION ELECTIONS
5 Democracy in the guise of representation elections
American elections, forces of fragmentation
Union elections, forces of continuity
Electoral performance of the IBEW and UAW
Participation, size, and electoral performance
6 Organizing strategies in the heartland and the South
A model of union organization
Organizing strategies and electoral performance
Empirical framework and model specification
Results of Probit analysis
Implications for union organizing
7 At the margin of the rules of the game
Close elections and campaign strategy
Institutional context of close elections
Patterns of close elections
Modeling the margins of victory and loss
Determinants of the margins of victory and loss
PART IV REGULATING LOCAL LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
8 Integrity of the National Labor Relations Board
Institutions and the economic landscape
Collective bargaining and the location of work
Three dilemmas of adjudicative integrity
9 Options for restructuring the US economy
Economic restructuring and labor policy
Modes of economic justice
PART V PROSPECTS FOR ORGANIZED LABOR
10 Republicans, Democrats, and the southern veto
A brief historical perspective
The campaign to repeal Section i4(b)
Common-site picketing and labor law reform
Labor law reform in the Reagan era
Is labor law reform possible?
11 Employment contracts without unions
Origins of employment-at-will
Exemptions from employment-at-will
Contract and the grounds of dismissal
12 Unions and communities unarmed
Crisis of organized labor
Contested explanations of crisis
If there are no unions, no communities
Appendix 1 Variables and data sources
[i] Crisis of organized labor
[2] Understanding union growth and decline
[3] Communities and corporate location strategies
[4] Rationing jobs within the union, between communities
[5] Democracy in the guise of representation elections
[6] Organizing strategies in the heartland and the South
[7] At the margin of the rules of the game
[8] Integrity of the National Labor Relations Board
[9] Options for restructuring the US economy
[10] Republicans, Democrats, and the southern veto
[11] Employment contracts without unions
[12] Unions and communities unarmed
Unions and Communities under Siege
：American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor
( Cambridge Human Geography )
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