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Excerpt from Admission to American Trade Unions Another form of cooperation, which appeared with the movement toward general union from 1830 on, was the recommendation by a central convention Of trades of the organization Of certain classes of workers. For example, the National Trades' Union, although in 1835 it directed the workingmen of its constituent societies to oppose by all honest means the multiplying of all descriptions Of labor for females, and in the following year again deplored the evil of competition with women, advised the trades affected by the work Of women to admit them to membership or to organize them into auxiliary societies.3 Furthermore, the National Trades' Union at this time sanctioned the forma tion of societies composed Of workmen from more than one trade, or the admission into any trade society of workmen from difi'erent trades.4 The Boston cordwainers' society in 1840 thus extended the privileges of membership to out side workmen Of unorganized trades. This liberal policy was seldom adopted as a means Of securing members, inas much as it involved a disregard of trade lines. The local character Of unionism rendered as yet impossible the formu lation, and much less the enforcement, of a concerted plan with reference to the composition Of union membership. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
This controversial study analyses the present and future prospects for organized labour in the private sector. The book takes the decline and ultimate disappearance of labour unions - not just in the United States but elsewhere in the developed world - as fact.
The crisis in trade unionism is now a prevailing concern in the United States, as well as in Europe. Its main symptom is, of course, the decrease in union membership. Still, other, less observable elements account for the concern, namely the obsolescence of discourse, the decrease of militant motivation, and the question of efficiency of strikes or collective bargaining. One must keep in mind, however, that trade unions will evolve differently from one country to another. What we know about trade unions has changed over the years. We can now more accurately assess the effects of union action, especially with regard to labor market, wages, and productivity. This book adds to the assessment by integrating the new theories of organizations, contracts, and property rights. In doing so, we shift from a study of markets to one of hierarchies. Thus, the current literature comes back to its sources (but with improved analytical instruments) by returning to the Ross-Dunlop debate on the nature of the trade union. This more complex outlook of trade unions as an organization-not only as an abstract or bodyless supplier of monopolistic labor-allows one to understand better the apparent differences between unions (mainly American) whose action is oriented towards work relation ships and labor contract management and unions (European or "Latin") who are closer to a pressure group wielding power on the political front.