Beyond Survival

Bina, Cyrus; Clements, Laurie M.; Davis, Chuck

• Introduction—Beyond Survival: Toward the Revitalization of Labor; Chapter 1 Wage Labor and Global Capital: Global Competition and Universalization of the Labor Movement, Cyrus Bina, Chuck Davis; Chapter 2 Labor and Today’s Global Economic Crisis: A Historical View, David C. Ranney; Chapter 3 Political Entrepreneurialism: Deregulation, Privatization, and the “Reinvention of Government”, Laurie Clements; Chapter 4 The Swedish Model: From the Cradle to the Grave?, Norman Eiger; Chapter 5 Labor Relations and the Social Structure of Accumulation: The Case of U.S. Coal Mining, Michele I. Naples; Chapter 6 Shop Floor Relations: The Past, Present, and Future of Mass Production, David Fairris; Chapter 7 An Alternative Strategy: Lessons from the UAW Local 6 and the FE, 1946–52, Victor G. Devinatz; Chapter 8 Lean and Mean: Work, Locality, and Unions, Philip Garrahan, Paul Stewart; Chapter 9 The Future Is Already Here: Deskilling of Work in the “Office of the Future”, Vernon Mogensen; Chapter 10 Management Resistance to Change: A Case of Computer Information Systems, Elaine Bernard; Chapter 11 Legal Challenges Against Plant Closings: Eminent Domain, Labor, and Community Property Rights, David Schultz;