Solidarity divided : the crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice / Bill Fletcher Jr., Fernando Gapasin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, Bill, Jr.

Contributor:

Gapasin, Fernando, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--United States--History.

Labor movement.

AFL-CIO.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart changes in U.S. manufacturing, examine the onslaught of globalization, consider the influence of the environment on labor, and provide the first broad analysis of the fallout from the 2000 and 2004 elections on the U.S. labor movement. Ultimately calling for a wide-ranging reexamination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of today's labor movement, this is essential reading for understanding how the battle for social justice can be fought and won.

Contents:

Challenges facing the U.S. labor movement

Dukin' it out : building the labor movement

The new deal

The cold war on labor

The civil rights movements, the left, and labor

The revolution will not be televised

Whose welfare matters, anyway?

What's left for us?

Organizing to organize the unorganized

Sweeney's grand gesture

The new voice coalition takes office

Developing strategy in times of change

Globalization : the biggest strategic challenge

Could'a, would'a, should'a : central labor councils and missed opportunities

International affairs, globalization, and 9/11

When silence isn't golden

Restlessness in the ranks

Change to win : a return to gompers?

Anger, compromise, and the paralysis of the Sweeney coalition

Left behind

The way forward : social justice unionism

The need for social justice unionism

The need for a global outlook

Realizing social justice unionism : strategies for transformation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and index.

ISBN:

9786612359422

9781282359420

1282359428

9780520934740

0520934741

OCLC:

503441968