TY - BOOK AU - Rhomberg,Chris ED - Project Muse. TI - The broken table: the Detroit Newspaper Strike and the state of American labor SN - 9781610447751 AV - PN4899.D53 R46 2012 U1 - 331.892/977434 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Russell Sage Foundation KW - Gannett Company KW - Knight-Ridder (Firm) KW - Newspaper publishing KW - Michigan KW - Detroit KW - Newspaper employees KW - Labor unions KW - Collective bargaining KW - Newspapers KW - Strikes and lockouts KW - Newspaper Strike, Detroit, Mich., 1995-1997 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Labor Day in America -- Worlds of work: economy and civil society. The industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder -- Detroit: labor and community -- A "daily miracle": the life of the workplace -- The institutional regulation of labor. Proper channels: U.S. labor law and union-management relations -- The path to confrontation: the newspapers' joint operating agreement in Detroit -- Extraordinary measures: planning for war -- War of position: the 1995 contract negotiations -- The spaces of conflict. Worlds collide: the start of the strike -- Law and violence: permanent replacements and the control of collective action -- Theaters of engagement: state and civil society -- Waiting for justice: the return to work and the end of the strike -- Governing the workplace: American labor today. Conclusion: a signal juncture UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781610447751/ ER -