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The broken table : the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor / Chris Rhomberg.
Author
Rhomberg, Chris, 1959-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2012]
©2012
Description
1 online resource (x, 387 p. ) ill. ;
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Subject(s)
Newspaper Strike, Detroit, Michigan, 1995-2000
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Strikes and lockouts
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Newspapers
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Michigan
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Detroit
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Collective bargaining
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Newspapers
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Michigan
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Detroit
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Newspaper employees
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Labor unions
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Michigan
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Detroit
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Newspaper publishing
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Michigan
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Detroit
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Knight-Ridder (Firm)
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Gannett Company
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Summary note
"In The Broken Table, Chris Rhomberg sees the Detroit strike as a historic collision of two opposing forces: a system in place since the New Deal governing disputes between labor and management and decades of increasingly aggressive corporate efforts to eliminate unions."--Jacket.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
English
Contents
Introduction: Labor Day in America
Worlds of work: economy and civil society. The industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder
Detroit: labor and community
A "daily miracle": the life of the workplace
The institutional regulation of labor. Proper channels: U.S. labor law and union-management relations
The path to confrontation: the newspapers' joint operating agreement in Detroit
Extraordinary measures: planning for war
War of position: the 1995 contract negotiations
The spaces of conflict. Worlds collide: the start of the strike
Law and violence: permanent replacements and the control of collective action
Theaters of engagement: state and civil society
Waiting for justice: the return to work and the end of the strike
Governing the workplace: American labor today. Conclusion: a signal juncture.
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ISBN
1-61044-775-1
OCLC
808337180
945611046
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The broken table : the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor / Chris Rhomberg.
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