Lawrence Richards (2) (1959–)
Autor von Union-free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
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Über den Autor
Lawrence Richards is a visiting assistant professor of history at Miami University of Ohio.
Werke von Lawrence Richards
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Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1959
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Land (für Karte)
- USA
- Berufe
- professor of history
- Organisationen
- Miami University, Middletown
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Statistikseite
- Werke
- 1
- Mitglieder
- 11
- Beliebtheit
- #857,862
- Bewertung
- 4.0
- Rezensionen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
- Sprachen
- 1
After establishing the popular opinion of unions Richards looks at how the unions react to that perception by looking at three different types of organizing activities, a blue-collar mill in the rural South, white-collar office workers in New York, and professionals, teachers, deciding between two professional organizations, one affiliated with the AFL-CIO and one that was not.
I found the book to be very well written and as easy to read as you could expect from an academic work. I appreciated Richards’s use of two popular comic strips to illustrate public opinion. What better evidence of popular opinion is there than a punch line that dependent on the audience’s shared beliefs?… (mehr)