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The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

Immanuel Ness
Affiliation:
Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Extract

The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics. By Peter L. Francia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 216p. $42.00.

As the spiraling decline of organized labor continues unabated, the U.S. labor movement is becoming more insignificant to workers. In 2004, union density in the private sector declined to a postwar nadir below 10%. As membership drops, so does union capacity to mobilize members in the electoral sphere. But since 1995, when John Sweeney and the New Voice slate toppled Lane Kirkland as president of the AFL-CIO, Peter L. Francia argues, labor unions are more effective politically than ever. This belief is rooted in Francia's quantitative research of congressional elections in the Sweeney era from 1994 to 2002.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Copyright
2006 American Political Science Association

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