"Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead.…
"Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead.…
Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher's 'Strike!' to bring American labour history to a wide audience. 'Strike!' narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. It …
"Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher's Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. It tel…
"Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher's Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. It tel…
"Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working class mind. Networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor…
Introduction -- "A little avenue to self-mastery": the social world of working-class readers -- "All sorts of wild, impassioned talk": open forums and the working-class public sphere -- "To see and hear things that have always been there": labor's pedagogy of the organized -- Br…
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Work…
First published in 1987. This book considers the Trade Unions-Labour Party relationship. It traces developments over the 1970s and early 1980s, and analyses the debate between those who argue for the Unions to take a more prominent lead within the Party and those who are against…
"We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we're faced with daunting questions - is our democracy under threat? How will…
From bestselling author, CNN+ host of No Mercy, No Malice, and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got here.We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism in…
Introduction: Honduran workers--new voices, old memories -- Intersecting projects: contested visions for the North Coast -- Revolutionary antecedents to the 1954 strike: liberals, rebels and radicals -- Life and labor in banana fincas -- The making of a campeño and campeña cultu…
"On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and articulating a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader…
On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and placing a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader worki…
"On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and articulating a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader…
"On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and articulating a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader…
"A progressive resurgence is happening across the United States. This book shows how long-lasting coalitions have built progressive power from the regional level on up. Anchored by the "think and act" affiliate organizations of the Partnership for Working Families (PWF) these re…
