Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change
Ian Thomas MacDonald, "Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change"
English | ISBN: 1501706543 | 2017 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1501706543 | 2017 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces. As unions become more involved in the daily life of the city, they find themselves confronting the familiar dilemma of how to fold union priorities into broader campaigns that address nonunion workers and the lives of union members beyond the workplace. If we are right to believe that the future of the labor movement is an urban one, union activists and staffers, urban policymakers, elected officials, and members of the public alike will require a fuller understanding of what impels unions to become involved in urban policy issues, what dilemmas structure the choices unions make, and what impact unions have on the lives of urban residents, beyond their members.
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