Junior History Tutorial: Labor's Lost Might
CSS 340
Fall 2015 not offered
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| Certificates: International Relations, Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
Why are labor unions so weak in the United States today? After World War II, America appeared to be becoming, in the words of Sumner Slichter, a "laboristic" nation in which unions were be the strongest single influence in society. Although unions in the manufacturing sector lost momentum in the 1950s, school teachers, police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, hospital workers, retail clerks, and other kinds of previously unorganized workers flocked into organized labor between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s. Why have the unions lost so much power since then? And what have been the consequences for workers, their families, consumers, and stockholders, and for American and international politics and economics? These are the questions addressed in this tutorial. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSS) |
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