Can a New Labor Movement Arise in Our Changing Economic Times?
Summary
What will be the path? If labor revives, clearly it will require a mix of both “old” institutional forms and “new.” As Rob Witherell, a Steelworker representative, observed a few years ago, at its most basic level, the labor movement isn’t about unions as organizations. “It is about workers helping each other out to create a better life for themselves.”