The future of organized labor in American politics /
In 1995, promising a more active political presence for unions, John Sweeney was elected president of the AFL-CIO. Labor would develop a ""new voice, "" one that could not be ignored or taken for granted by Democratic and Republican politicians. However, by the summer of 2005 opp...
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Columbia University Press,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- A different direction for organized labor?
- Strength in numbers: organizing and mobilizing union members
- Countering business: union campaigning in congressional elections
- The air war: the AFL-CIO advertising campaign
- Laboring for a "working family" agenda
- The significance of union renewal
- The 2004 election.
