Fitch,R. Solidarity for Sale. 2006
Fitch, Robert. Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor
Movement and Undermined America's Promise. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006.
412 pages.
A labor union member since age 15, Robert Fitch has taught at Cornell
and New York University. His basic point in this book is that the history
of the labor movement in the U.S. is one of thorough-going corruption.
It's so bad that a 2005 Harris Poll showed that even most union households
disapproved of American unions. Corruption is the reason. It's also the one
thing that no one wants to talk about.
Fitch gets very specific. He looks at the AFL-CIO, the AFSCME, and
the Teamsters, with particular attention to what goes on in certain local
affiliates. Even apart from the Mafia and pension-fund pilfering, it seems
that the various reform movements that occasionally spring up are powerless
to change anything. In his concluding chapter Fitch offers ideas on how
to restore the U.S. labor movement. What's needed is real democracy and the
accountability of the leadership, within the unions themselves. Compared to
unions in Europe, where workers can take longer vacations, get sick, and
become pregnant without penalty, the American situation is dismal. As this
review is written two years later, it's also beginning to look like the
middle class in America is under serious pressure while the rich get richer,
at the same time that Europe is becoming economically stronger.
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