M5. Labor Movement from Late 1940s to 2000Please respond to the following questions:What do you believe were the major causes of organized labor’s decline in the post-World War II years?How important was the development of modern management in the post-World War II years?5. OverviewTopic OverviewIn this module we will discuss the development of the labor movement and the workplace after World War II to the end of thetwentieth-century.Module ObjectivesThis module will discuss the following themes:The effects of Vietnam on working people;Labor and the Cold War;The development of the post-war corporation and its impact on workers;Consumerism;Workers in popular culture;The loss of American manuacturing jobs;Increases in public sector employment and the rise of public sector unionization;The effect government social programs in the 1960s and 1970s on workers, and the impact of the Reagan era on working people,andThe decline of the labor movement.Readings/PreparationFoster Rhea Dulles and Melvyn Dubofsky Labor in America A History Eighth Edtion 2010, chapters 19 to 21. pages 325-364Jefferson Cowie 2010 Stayin Alive The 1970s and the last days of the woking class, Introduction, Chapter 1 pages 24-74,Chapter 4 pages 168-209 , Chapter 7 pages 314-356.Jonathan Rees and Johnathan Pollack The Vovise of the People 2004, pages 185 to 224.Learning ActivitiesYou will be asked to write a review of a labor-themed film.DiscussionsWe will discuss labor movements from the late 1940s to 2000.Due DatesTo view the due dates for this module, click on the Course Schedule.Image : Poster showing head-and-shoulders of woman operating a machine as part of World War II production effort. It reads“”I’ve found the job where I fit best!” find your war job in industry, agriculture, business.” Washington, D.C. : Office ofWar Information, 1943. Library of Congress Photograph and Prints. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90707072/.5. Research SourcesThe following are some quality web-based resources that you may be interested in viewing and incorporating into your writtenassignments or the discussion area (don’t forget to cite any materials you use):Articles:Barry, Kathleen M. Too Glamorous to be Considered Workers. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, vol 3,no 3 (Fall 2008), 119-138.Brattain, Michelle. Making Friends and Enemies: Textile Workers and Political Action in Post-World War II Georgia. TheJournal of Southern History 63.1 (1997): 91-138.Brody, David. Labor History, Industrial Relations, and the Crisis of American Labor.Industrial and Labor Relations Review43.1 (1989): 7-18.Brooks, Jennifer. World War II Veterans and Labor in the Postwar South. Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of theAmericas vol 7, no 2 (Summer 2010), 27-52.Dark, Taylor E. Organized Labor and the Congressional Democrats: Reconsidering the 1980s. Political Science Quarterly 111.1(1996): 83-104.Democracy in Overalls: The Futile Quest for Union Democracy. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 12.4 (1959): 503-525.Drucker, Peter F. ‘Management Science’ and the Manager. Management Science 1. 2 (1955): 115-126.Drucker, Peter F. Labor in Industrial Society. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 274 (1951):145-151.Lipsitz, George. The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs. CulturalAnthropology 1.4 (1986): 355-387.Schrecker, Ellen W. Archival Sources for the Study of McCarthyism. The Journal of American History 75.1 (1988): 197-208.Sugrue, Thomas J. Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964.The Journal of American History 82.2 (1995): 551-578. .Last modified: Monday, June 24, 2013, 4:35 PM
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