Rethinking Employee Retraining: Lessons from the 1980s
We asked Neil Johnson-Rogers to introduce readers to some of his findings, published in the new issue of Labor, about the vaunted autoworker.
Issues of Labor
LaborOnline
LaborOnline
Postmortem on Bessemer Amazon Defeat
First, we must recognize that the overwhelming vote against the union in Bessemer marks a decisive defeat, not to be under estimated. It.
- by Michael Goldfield
- April 13, 2021
LAWCHA
Perspectives: The UAW Defeat in Chattanooga
There have been a number of historically-informed blogs posted since the UAW’s defeat in Chattanooga in mid-February, 2014. We invite you to consider.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 23, 2014
LAWCHA
Doing the Employer’s Dirty Work?: Thinking about the History of Anti-Unionism from “Below” after the UAW’s Defeat in Chattanooga
Historians should think carefully as they ponder the meaning of the UAW defeat in Chattanooga. Some analysts write as though a full-fledged co-determination.
- by Chad Pearson
- February 21, 2014
LAWCHA
So the UAW Lost, What Can Be Done? Some History Lessons.
In the aftermath of the UAW loss in the Volkswagen union election in Tennessee, declarations of “A Titanic Defeat” echo across the blogosphere..
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 16, 2014
LAWCHA
Volkswagen, Chattanooga and the Long History of Union Avoidance
A number of Tennessee’s politicians and business leaders are baffled and frustrated that autoworkers at Chattanooga’s sizable, $1 billon Volkswagen plant may force.
- by Chad Pearson
- September 17, 2013