{"product_id":"heartland-blues-labor-rights-in-the-industrial-midwest-hardcover","title":"Heartland Blues: Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarc Dixon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHeartland Blues\u003c\/em\u003e, Marc Dixon provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the late 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he analyzes campaigns over key labor policies as they were waged in the heavily unionized states of Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin-the very same states at the center of more recent battles over labor rights. He shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for less powerful groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at the time, but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. Thus, the labor movement's social and political isolation and their limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the ensuing decades, as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShowing how labor rights have been challenged in significant ways in the industrial Midwest in the 1950s, \u003cem\u003eHeartland Blues \u003c\/em\u003eboth identifies enduring problems for labor and forces scholars to look beyond size when seeking clues to labor's failures and successes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Dixon\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College, where he serves as chair. Prior to this he was a member of the faculty at Florida State University. He has published in the top sociology and interdisciplinary journals including \u003cem\u003eAmerican Sociological Review\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eSocial Problems\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eJournal of Policy History, Mobilization, and Social Movement Studies\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWork and Occupations.\u003c\/em\u003e His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has received awards from the American Sociological Association's sections on Labor and Labor Movements and Collective Behavior and Social Movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162625413255,"sku":"9780190917036","price":94.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5d171b222c1342a1bad66640a6a6175f.webp?v=1733290932","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/heartland-blues-labor-rights-in-the-industrial-midwest-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}