Robert Bussel
Biographic Data
| ID | 988179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Bussel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Bussel |
| SIGNATURE | BUSSEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Don't Be a Jerk”
Attempting to capitalize on the gains made during World War II, many labor liberals feared a resurgence of racism and anti-Semitism that threatened to derail prospects for increasing union influence and advancing democracy in the postwar period. To counter the threat of demagogic appeals to workers, Jewish labor organizations and their allies launched a multipronged campaign “to tell biased people that the climate of opinion was against them” and…
R obert M. Z ecker . “A Road to Peace and Freedom”
For many Americans, the early twentieth-century workplace represented a dangerous environment where the possibility of injury, accident, or even death loomed as a persistent threat. Adding insult to injury, workers hurt on the job often received little or no compensation for their suffering and were left to fend for themselves with few options for meeting their ongoing health-care needs. Into this breach stepped the International Workers Order (I…
Fighting for Total Person Unionism
During the 1950s and 1960s, labor leaders Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway championed a new kind of labor movement that regarded workers as “total persons” interested in both workplace affairs and the exercise of effective citizenship in their communities. Working through Teamsters Local 688 and viewing the city of St. Louis as their laboratory, this remarkable interracial duo forged a dynamic political alliance that placed their “citizen membe…
Why Unions Matter„
Everybody's Town”
History
"Taking on "Big Chicken
Although efforts to organize workers in the new economy have attracted considerable scholarly and media attention, significant battlegrounds remain in old-economy industries that have suc cessfully resisted union penetration. Unions have been employing new strategies in their attempts to recruit workers in those unor ganized sectors. This case study analyzes one such initiative, the Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance (DPJA), an innovative labor- c…
A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums
(2003). 'A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums': Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and the St Louis Teamsters in the 1960s* Labor History: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 49-67
Fostering Critical Thinking about Contemporary Social and Political Issues
Socializing Security
Black Workers Remember
From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor
Southern Organizing in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This case study examines the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union's successful 3-1/2-year effort (1988–91) to organize workers at S. Lichtenberg, a Georgia-based curtain manufacturer. The author uses archival research and extensive interviews with rank-and-file activists to determine why the union was able to triumph after earlier (1966 and 1971) failed attempts to organize. He finds that political changes in the post-civil rights Sout…
Shifting Fortunes
Power at Odds
A Love of Unionism and Democracy”
Business Without a Boss”
Throughout the twentieth century, the role of workers in the management of business enterprise has been the subject of ongoing debate. Opponents of centralized, bureaucratic management have proposed a series of participatory alternatives—workers' control, industrial democracy, employee stock ownership, and more recently, employee involvement—that have sought to democratize workplace governance. Much of the literature on such initiatives, be it hi…
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
In Labor's Cause
Bread upon the Waters
A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums
(2003). 'A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums': Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and the St Louis Teamsters in the 1960s* Labor History: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 49-67
Business Without a Boss”
Throughout the twentieth century, the role of workers in the management of business enterprise has been the subject of ongoing debate. Opponents of centralized, bureaucratic management have proposed a series of participatory alternatives—workers' control, industrial democracy, employee stock ownership, and more recently, employee involvement—that have sought to democratize workplace governance. Much of the literature on such initiatives, be it hi…
Fostering Critical Thinking about Contemporary Social and Political Issues
Southern Organizing in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This case study examines the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union's successful 3-1/2-year effort (1988–91) to organize workers at S. Lichtenberg, a Georgia-based curtain manufacturer. The author uses archival research and extensive interviews with rank-and-file activists to determine why the union was able to triumph after earlier (1966 and 1971) failed attempts to organize. He finds that political changes in the post-civil rights Sout…
A Love of Unionism and Democracy”
Bread upon the Waters
In Labor's Cause
A Love of Unionism and Democracy”
Business Without a Boss”
Throughout the twentieth century, the role of workers in the management of business enterprise has been the subject of ongoing debate. Opponents of centralized, bureaucratic management have proposed a series of participatory alternatives—workers' control, industrial democracy, employee stock ownership, and more recently, employee involvement—that have sought to democratize workplace governance. Much of the literature on such initiatives, be it hi…
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
Power at Odds
Southern Organizing in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This case study examines the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union's successful 3-1/2-year effort (1988–91) to organize workers at S. Lichtenberg, a Georgia-based curtain manufacturer. The author uses archival research and extensive interviews with rank-and-file activists to determine why the union was able to triumph after earlier (1966 and 1971) failed attempts to organize. He finds that political changes in the post-civil rights Sout…
Shifting Fortunes
Socializing Security
Black Workers Remember
From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor
Fostering Critical Thinking about Contemporary Social and Political Issues
"Taking on "Big Chicken
Although efforts to organize workers in the new economy have attracted considerable scholarly and media attention, significant battlegrounds remain in old-economy industries that have suc cessfully resisted union penetration. Unions have been employing new strategies in their attempts to recruit workers in those unor ganized sectors. This case study analyzes one such initiative, the Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance (DPJA), an innovative labor- c…
A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums
(2003). 'A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums': Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and the St Louis Teamsters in the 1960s* Labor History: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 49-67
Everybody's Town”
History
Why Unions Matter„
Fighting for Total Person Unionism
During the 1950s and 1960s, labor leaders Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway championed a new kind of labor movement that regarded workers as “total persons” interested in both workplace affairs and the exercise of effective citizenship in their communities. Working through Teamsters Local 688 and viewing the city of St. Louis as their laboratory, this remarkable interracial duo forged a dynamic political alliance that placed their “citizen membe…
R obert M. Z ecker . “A Road to Peace and Freedom”
For many Americans, the early twentieth-century workplace represented a dangerous environment where the possibility of injury, accident, or even death loomed as a persistent threat. Adding insult to injury, workers hurt on the job often received little or no compensation for their suffering and were left to fend for themselves with few options for meeting their ongoing health-care needs. Into this breach stepped the International Workers Order (I…
Don't Be a Jerk”
Attempting to capitalize on the gains made during World War II, many labor liberals feared a resurgence of racism and anti-Semitism that threatened to derail prospects for increasing union influence and advancing democracy in the postwar period. To counter the threat of demagogic appeals to workers, Jewish labor organizations and their allies launched a multipronged campaign “to tell biased people that the climate of opinion was against them” and…
Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)