Overview
Offers a novel model for understanding when trade unions include, and when they exclude
Presents an investigation of trade unions in Palestine, a hitherto understudied context
Uses case studies and thorough research to present a unique and significant contribution to the study of racism/ethnicity in trade unions - a new but growing area of scholarly investigation
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“It is a rare moment that I pick up a non-fiction work and cannot stop reading it. Shaul Duke's The Stratifying Trade Union is one of the most thought-provoking and controversial texts I have read in some time.. It offers an analysis of the roles that unions can and do play under the conditions of a divided or fractured workforce. It also challenges the reader—particular those of us in the labor movement—to consider the material conditions that promote reactionary, exclusionist trade union policies and practices that further fragment the working class.” (Bill Fletcher, Jr., former President of the TransAfrica Forum, co-author of Solidarity Divided, and author of They're Bankrupting Us!)
“This is a fascinating and absorbing account of trade unionism in Palestine under the British Mandate. Steeped in social science literature, the book also reveals the personal dimensions of history. Here, we find trade unions to be significant actors in a society riven by religion and ethnicity as well as class and gender. This is an important contribution to the study of trade unionism and Palestine itself.” (Craig Phelan, Editor of Labor History and Professor of Comparative Liberal Studies, Habib University, Pakistan)
“Shaul Duke’s innovative book brilliantly explores the internal dynamics of trade unions, showing how they may become platforms for perpetuating material privileges of some workers at the expense of others. This is a must read not only for historians of mandate-Palestine but for scholars of labor relations in general.” (Ronen Shamir, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University)
“This book makes an essential contribution to our understanding of how trade unions affect inequality. It provides a convincing analysis of how trade unions operate in stratified societies and the ways in which they contribute to this by excluding and marginalizing particular social groups. The book is based on a wealth of untapped primary sources and as a result also provides a gripping overview of socio-economic life in Palestine during the period of the British mandate.” (Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, Leiden University, Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Social History (IISH))
“The originality of Duke's book lies in the simultaneous breakdown of the Histadrut trade union's actions on three dimensions: the differential treatment of selective workers' sectors (Palestinians, women and Yemeni Jews), the diverging interests and impact of top leadership vs. lower ranks, and the historical dimension (identifying turning points in the union's policy). The result is illuminating.” (Daniel De-Malach, Lecturer, Former Chair, Department of Administration and Public Policy, Sapir Academic College, Israel)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Stratifying Trade Union
Book Subtitle: The Case of Ethnic and Gender Inequality in Palestine, 1920-1948
Authors: Shaul A. Duke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65100-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65099-9Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87950-5Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65100-2Published: 17 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 312
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Ethnicity Studies