In solidarity : essays on working-class organization in the United States / Kim Moody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moody, Kim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--United States.

Labor unions.

Labor movement--United States.

Labor movement.

Labor--United States.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes. He currently lives in the UK where is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a Senior Research Fellow at the Work and Employment Unit of the University of Hertfordshire.<BR><BR></div>

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Class Struggle�Theory and Strategy""; ""Marx�s Theory of Classand the World Today""; ""1. Marx�s Theory of Class and the World Today""; ""2. Unions, Strikes, and Class Consciousness Today""; ""3. Contextualizing Organized Labor in Expansion and Crisis: The Case of the United States""; ""4. The Rank-and-File Strategy""; ""5. Updating the Rank-and-File Strategy""; ""6. General Strikes, Mass Strikes: Don�t Call Us, We�ll Call You""; ""Part II The Future of Unions in the United States""

""7. Beating the Union: Union Avoidance in the United States, 1945 to the Present""""8. Union Organizing in the United States: Why It Isn�t Working and How It Might""; ""9. Striking Out in America: Is There an Alternative to the Strike?""; ""10. Competition and Conflict: Union Growth in the US Hospital Industry""; ""11. Immigrant Workers and Labor in the United States""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60846-458-X

OCLC:

881805390