Theories of the Labor Movement
by John Kenneth Galbraith, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Frank Tannenbaum, Richard B. Freeman, Michael Mann, Richard T. Ely, André Gorz, Milton Friedman, Pope John Paul Ii, Bruce Nissen, Simeon Larson, John T. Dunlop, Richard Hyman, A. Lozovsky, Thomas Taylor Hammond, William Trautmann, Vincent St. John, William Haywood, Frank Bohn, Lewis Lorwin, Georges Sorel, Stanley Aronowitz, John R. Commons, Alan Dawley, Selig Perlman, Charles A. Gulick, Melvin K. Bers, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Carleton Parker, Robert Hoxie, Thorstein Veblen, Pope Leo Xiii, Pope Pius Xi, Henry Simons, Orme W. Phelps, Rose Friedman, James L. Medoff, Clark Kerr, Frederick H. Harbison, Charles A. Myers, Neil Chamberlain, John H. Goldthorpe, David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer, Jennifer Platt, John H.. M. Laslett, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
This collection brings together major perspectives on the labor movement from economic, political, sociological, religious, and institutional viewpoints. With contributors ranging from Marx and Engels to Galbraith, Friedman, the Webbs, and Lenin, it provides a wide-ranging introduction to debates about work, unions, class, and industrial society.
About This Book
Theories of the Labor Movement presents a broad collection of writings on organized labor and the forces that shape working life.
Featuring authors including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, John Kenneth Galbraith, Milton Friedman, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the volume spans contrasting intellectual and political traditions.
Its contributors address subjects connected to unions, class, industrial relations, social organization, economics, and the development of labor thought.
The collection offers a resource for readers interested in the history and interpretation of labor movements.
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