With Just Cause: Unionization of the American Journalist

by Walter M. Brasch

With Just Cause is a collection of essays on the relationship between the trend toward unionization and the development of the newspaper publishing industry. Selected Where We Came A Brief History of the Writers Guild of America; Uniting Freelance The National Writers Union; Printing Trades Unions in the Media; Collective A Foundation for Worker Rights; The Union Requiring Journalists to Join a Union; Media Unions Before the American Newspaper Guild; The Open Shop Agreement of the A.N.P.A.; Anticommunism in the New York Newspaper Guild; Who Killed the Herald Tribune ; Endorsing Politicians and Social Freedom of Speech and a Union's Right v. Media Credibility and an Illusion of Objectivity; A Brief Look at Publishers and Newspaper Carriers; 'When It's Over, We Won't Care About You Anymore" The Mainstream Press Covers Labor; The Labor Press in America.

511 pages, Hardcover

First published December 23, 1991

About the author

professor of journalism; president of Pennsylvania Press Club; syndicated columnist; radio commentator for three networks. Hustling book writer."