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What’s happening inside U.S. unions: Democracy and union politics

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On balance the news is good. The union movement is awakening from the fatalistic pessimism and apathy which marked the 1980s. There is new excitement. New blood is coming in. New ideas are being tried. Pockets of corruption are being cleaned out. Important issues are being debated and have become the subject of hard-fought union elections.

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Strauss, G. What’s happening inside U.S. unions: Democracy and union politics. Journal of Labor Research 21, 211–225 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-000-1044-x

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