
Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back
Thomas Geoghegan
Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back
Thomas Geoghegan
#2734 of 3,809 books · #43 in Business & Economics
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1991).
A marvelous portrait of the struggle to preserve a way of life through the voices of his blue-collar clients' grievances with their slowly corrupting unions.
- Publisher
- Plume Books
- Genre
- Topics
- Labor unionsWorking class lifeUnion corruption
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1991)
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