Union Resilience in Troubled Times: The Story of the Operating Engineers AFL-CIO 1960-93

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it. Introduction; I: The Growth Years, 1960–1975; 1: Success, Challenge, and Response; 2: Historical Prologue; 3: The Accomplishments and Consequences of Collective Bargaining, 1960–1975; 4: Training: The Key To Craft Status; 5: Legislation and Public Policy; II: Challenge and Response, 1976–1993; 6: A Time of Troubles; 7: Counterattack; 8: The View from the Local Level; 9: The Future