American communities and the crisis of organized labor /
Gordon L. Clark.
Digitally printed 1st pbk. version.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
xvii, 309 pages ;
23 cm.
Cambridge human geography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-292) and indexes.
Crisis of organized labor -- Understanding union growth and decline -- Communities and corporate location strategies -- Rationing jobs within the union, between communities -- Democracy in the guise of representation elections -- Organizing strategies in the heartland and the South -- At the margin of the rules of the game -- Integrity of the National Labor Relations Board -- Options for restructuring the US economy -- Republicans, Democrats, and the southern veto -- Employment contracts without unions -- Unions and communities unarmed.
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Community development-- United States.
Industrial relations-- United States.
Labor laws and legislation-- United States.
Labor unions-- Jurisdictional disputes-- United States, Case studies.