Unions' future in America.(The Future of the American Labor Movement)(Book Review)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Wald, Michael | Copyright information

The Future of the American Labor Movement. By Hoyt N. Wheeler. New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 278pp. $65/hardback; $23 paperback.

Despite the current recession, the rate of unionization continues to decline in the United States (currently down to 13.2 percent in 2002 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics latest survey). At the same time, the number of books devoted to discussing the direction of labor unions seems to proliferate. One of the more re...

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