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Unions and legitimacy

Title
  1. Unions and legitimacy / Gary Chaison, Barbara Bigelow.
Published by
  1. Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, ©2002.
Author
  1. Chaison, Gary N.

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Additional authors
  1. Bigelow, Barbara Jane, 1951-
Description
  1. xi, 133 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "Legitimacy is vital to unions. Without it, they lose political and ideological support, members, and access to funds. Gary Chaison and Barbara Bigelow use the concept of legitmacy as a lens through which to understand the steady decline in union size and influence and to suggest new strategies for union revitalization."
  2. "Chaison and Bigelow relate legitimacy to five case studies: the UPS strike, the organization of clerical workers at Harvard, the AFL-CIO associate membership campaign, the fight against NAFTA, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association Campaign for Safe Care. The cases show the need for unions to move beyond pragmatic concerns and link their activities to the broader interests of their constituencies, demonstrating not only that they offer something tangible in return for support (pragmatic legitimacy) but also that they are doing the right thing (moral legitimacy)." "Chaison and Bigelow's work has practical implications for the management of unions' core activities - organizing, collective bargaining, and political action."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Labor unions > Recognition > United States
  2. Consensus (Social sciences) > United States
  3. Consensus (Social sciences)
  4. Labor unions > Recognition
  5. Gewerkschaft
  6. Rechtmäßigkeit
  7. trade union role
  8. trade union attitude
  9. case study
  10. strike
  11. trade unionization
  12. trade union federation
  13. NAFTA
  14. rôle du syndicat
  15. attitude syndicale
  16. étude de cas
  17. grève
  18. syndicalisation
  19. fédération syndicale
  20. ALENA
  21. papel del sindicato
  22. actitud sindical
  23. estudio de casos
  24. huelga
  25. sindicalización
  26. federación sindical
  27. TLCAN
  28. United States
  29. USA
  30. USA
  31. Etats-Unis
  32. Estados Unidos
Contents
  1. Legitimacy matters--but what is it? -- Who confers legitimacy on unions? -- Managing pragmatic legitimacy -- Gaining moral legitimacy -- What can legitimacy tell us about the state of the unions?
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-128) and index.