Unions in crisis? : the future of organized labor in America (published 2008), by Michael Schiavone.
Michael Schiavone’s LinkedIn page describes him as an
Independent Researcher who is currently teaching labor studies as a visiting lecturer at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(I checked the University of Illinois’s web site, and it confirms him as
teaching there, in the School of Labor and Employment Relations.) Schiavone previously taught at the University of
South Australia and Flinders University (in Australia). He has a PhD from Australian National
University. Besides Unions in Crisis, he
has published a book titled Sports and Labor in the United States (described on the SUNY Press website as an "overview and analysis of labor relations in the big four American sports"), and he is
apparently under contract for another book, Austerity and the Labor Movement. LinkedIn also lists 10 other publications
by Schiavone (book chapters and journal articles), mainly focused on the topic area of labor. Given Schiavone’s education, employment, and
other publications, he appears to be well qualified for writing on the topic of labor
and unions.
Unions in Crisis was published in 2008. The fortunes of unions don't seem to have changed much
since 2008 (it appears that they are in as much of a crisis now as they were
then), so much of what Schiavone published in 2008 should still be useful and
accurate information about unions. But a
lot can happen in seven years that could affect the state of unions, so a
research project on the current state of unions should be informed by some sources
that have been published more recently than Unions in Crisis.
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