Rebuilding Labor - 9780801489020

Rebuilding LaborOrganizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement\nAuthor(s): Ruth Milkman, Kim Voss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: ILR Press\nISBN-13: 9780801489020, 978-0801489020\nSynopsis\n\""In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power, unions must fundamentally alter their internal organizational practices. This means creating more organizer positions on the staff; developing programs to teach current members how to handle the tasks involved in resolving shop-floor grievances; and building programs that train members to participate fully in the work of external organizing. Such a reorientation entails redefining the very meaning of union membership from a relatively passive stance toward one of continuous active engagement.\""from the Introduction \n\n In Rebuilding Labor Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss bring together established researchers and a new generation of labor schola.