Fighting For Jobs: Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant ClosingsSUNY Press, 1 janv. 1995 - 215 pages This book examines the struggle of unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s. The unusual depth of the research allows the reader to grasp the key factors affecting such battles in an era of industrial restructuring. It contains new insights into "early warning" signs, their recognition and importance; the role of labor-management relations in both shutdown decisions and efforts to save the plant; the importance of corporate structure and strategy; the part played by economic market factors; and the role of local government, both potential and actual. The book concludes with an analysis of the current trends affecting labor-community activism of this type. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Military Conversion and the Shutdown of the BlawKnox Steel Foundry | 19 |
Public Subsidy Abuse at the Combustion Engineering Plant | 45 |
Successorship and Managerial Competence at the Stratojac Plant | 69 |
Struggle to Reopen the Hammond LTV Bar Mill | 87 |
Preventing a Department Relocation at the LaSalle Steel Plant | 109 |
Comparing the Cases Critical Factors | 133 |
Problem Definition Alliance Formation Mobilization and the Significance of LaborCommunity Coalitions | 157 |
Notes | 177 |
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19 February alliance Amsterdam author's possession bar mill bargaining basic steel Blaw-Knox Steering Committee Bruce Nissen business climate buyer Calumet Project capacity utilization chapter closure Combustion Engineering company's Congressman contract cost Daily News Record decision decline draw bench early warning East Chicago East Chicago plant economic development efforts eminent domain employee employment equipment facility factors feasibility study February forces Frankfort Gary Post-Tribune goal grinding department Hammond plant important interview issues Jerry Brown July labor relations labor-community coalitions LaSalle Steel letter LTV's Lynn Feekin Marie Howland meeting million mobilization nomic northwest Indiana operating organization overcapacity ownership pany pension percent Peter Visclosky Playskool political president problem definition product line product market profit public officials public subsidies Quanex region relocation reopen Richard Treder Sakin sell shutdown steel mill Stratojac tank orders tion United Steelworkers USWA wage White Consolidated Winer workers workforce York