...Heartland Blues. Marc Dixon, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190917036.001.0001. The conclusion revisits the main findings of the book and considers how important weaknesses unions exhibited in the 1950s matter now in an era marked by union decline...

..., the political nature of employment relations makes the latter an important source of transformation at state level. Hence, for example, trade union decline and shifts in the nature of collective bargaining paved the way for governmental reforms towards further labour market deregulation. Meardi Guglielmo G...

... as for political democracy. Union revitalization in the face of their current difficulties is therefore of fundamental importance. This book charts the strategies unions use to respond to global union decline and to revive their fortunes in five countries — the liberal market economies of the US and the UK...

...Jackson Hill Coal Mine No. 2, Sullivan County, n.d. Courtesy of the Coal Town and Railroad Museum, Clinton, Indiana. Chapter 3 examines the reasons that caused workers to leave or reject unions. Scholars normally associate union decline with workers disillusion with unionism. This chapter...

...Heartland Blues. Marc Dixon, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190917036.001.0001. This chapter identifies the historical roots of union decline in a period of unparalleled labor strength—the 1950s. Like their contemporary counterparts, unions...

... how union decline has contributed to several pressing social problems, including growing income inequality and increases in poverty among households with employed individuals, or what social scientists call working poverty. Union decline has weakened the middle class and diminished an important...

... workers supervision line speed white collar workers consultation deindustrialisation Europe Sweden the state riots assembly line workers De-industrialisation 1970s 1980s Trade union decline Thatcherism Callaghan Declinism De-alignment By 1975, most car factories in Britain had developed...

... Kayford Mountain Long Kate Clean Water Protection Act mountaintop removal women's leadership union decline social issues coalfields CRMW Friends of the Mountains social justice The prominence of women in leadership positions is a signature characteristic of Appalachian community activism...

...Consultation is important especially at a time of union decline and retreat from collective bargaining revealing a large and growing representation gap. Consultation is the last chance for collectivism. It gives employees a strategic voice and is associated with positive business outcomes...

... union decline manufacturing employer offensive public sector unions AFL-CIO Change to Win labor laws strikes Following the mid-century boom came the big bust. Since 1955, overall union density moved steadily downward. And, since 1979, absolute numbers of union members declined, moving from over...