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The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy

The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy

Author: Angela B. Cornell; Mark Barenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108839884
Published In: January 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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We are currently witnessing some of the greatest challenges to democratic regimes since the 1930s, with democratic institutions losing ground in numerous countries throughout the world. At the same time organized labor has been under assault worldwide, with steep declines in union density rates. In this timely handbook, scholars in law, political science, history, and sociology explore the role of organized labor and the working class in the historical construction of democracy. They analyze recent patterns of democratic erosion, examining its relationship to the political weakening of organized labor and, in several cases, the political alliances forged by workers in contexts of nationalist or populist political mobilization. The volume breaks new ground in providing cross-regional perspectives on labor and democracy in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Beyond academia, this volume is essential reading for policymakers and practitioners concerned with the relationship between labor and democracy.

Introduction

Angela B. Cornell

Part I. Labor and Democracy: Theory and Practice:

1. A new labor law for deep democracy: from social democracy to democratic socialism

Mark Barenberg

2. Labor and democracy: constructing, deepening, and defending citizenship rights

Kenneth M. Roberts

3. Labor's obstacles and democracy's demise

Angela B. Cornell

4. Right-wing populism, illiberal democracy, trade unions, and workers' rights

Keith D. Ewing

Part II. History, Politics, and Law:

5. Sectoral bargaining in the United States: historical roots of a twenty-first century renewal

Nelson Lichtenstein

6. The lever and the fulcrum: organizing and bargaining for democracy and the common good

Stephen Lerner, Sarita Gupta, Lauren Jacobs, Joseph A. McCartin, and Marilyn Sneiderman

7. 'Industrial democracy' in the United States, past and present

Wilma B. Liebman

8. Holding on: the decline of organized labor in the U.S. in historical perspective and the implications for democracy

Timothy J. Minchin

9. Unions and the democratic first amendment

Charlotte Garden

Part III. Labor, Diversity, and Democracy:

10. Coming apart: how union decline and workplace disintegration imperil democracy

Cynthia Estlund

11. Unions can help white workers become more racially tolerant

Paul Frymer, Jacob M. Grumbach, and Thomas Ogorzalek

12. Attacking democracy through immigration workplace raids

Bill Ong Hing

13. The care crisis: covid-19, labor feminism, and democracy

Debora Dinner

Part IV. Country and Regional Perspectives:

14. Labor, workers' rights, and democracy in Latin America

Mark Anner

15. African perspectives on labor rights as enhancers of democratic governance

Evance Kalula and Chanda Chungu

16. Why workers often oppose democracy

David Ost

17. Reclaiming democracy: the challenge facing labor in India

Anibel Ferus-Comelo

18. A critical assessment of democratic labor unionism in South Korea from a feminist standpoint

Jaok Kwon

Part V. Labor and Democracy Sectoral Case Studies: Platform Workers, Higher Education, and the Care Industry:

19. Pursuing democratic depth in an age of multinational power and soft labor law: the case of platform worker protests

Julia López López

20. Corporatization of higher education: a crisis of labor and democracy

Risa L. Lieberwitz

21. The fissured welfare state: care work, democracy, and public-private governance

Gabriel Winant.

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