Theories of the Labor Movement / Edition 1

by A. Lozovsky, Alan Dawley, Andre Gorz, Beatrice Webb, Carleton Parker

Overview

A collection of readings respecting both the history a labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement.

Respecting both the history a labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement, this collection of readings includes selections by Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, William Haywood, Georges Sorel, Stanley Aronowitz, John R. Commons, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Thorstein Veblen, Henry Simons, and John Kenneth Galbraith, among others.

Intending this as a text for classroom use, Larson and Nissen have arranged the readings according to the social role assigned to the labor movement by each theory. The text's major divisions consider the labor movement as an agent of revolution, as a business institution, as an agent of industrial reform, as a psychological reaction to industrialism, as a moral force, as a destructive monopoly, and as a subordinate mechanism in pluralist industrial society. Such groupings allow for ready comparison of divergent views of the origins, development, and future of the labor movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814318164
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1987
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Simeon Larson is professor and chairman of the Department of Labor Studies at Rutgers University.

Bruce Nissen is an assistant professor in the Division of Labor Studies at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana.

Editorial Reviews

From Karl Marx to John Kenneth Galbraith-with Thorstein Veblen and Big Bill Haywood inbetween-there are many theories about the whys and wherefores of labor unions as organizations of working people, and a comprehensive sampling is included in this book . . . [It] is particularly valuable to those who want to trace the philosophic underpinnings of organized labor; the readings are detailed and long enough to provide the full range of discussion. It is also valuable for those unionists who daily face arguments over the value of unions.

Allied Industrial Worker