Download or read book Reigniting the Labor Movement written by Gerald Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement‘s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earlies