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Solidarity unionism at Starbucks / by Daniel Gross and Staughton Lynd ; with cartoons by Tom Keough.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Daniel.
- Series:
- PM Press pamphlet series.
- PM Press pamphlet series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor union members--United States.
- Labor union members.
- Chain coffeehouses--Labor unions--United States.
- Chain coffeehouses.
- Starbucks Coffee Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (36 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, Calif. : PM Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument that workers themselves on the shop floor, not outside union officials, are the real hope for labor's future. Utilizing the principles of solidarity unionism, any group of co-workers, like the workers at Starbucks, can start building an organization to win an independent voice at work without waiting for a traditional trade union to come and organize" them. Indeed, in a leaked recording of a conference call, the nation's most prominent union-busting lobbyist coined a term, the Starbucks problem," as a warning to business executives about the risk of working people organizing themselves and taking direct action to improve issues at work. Combining history and theory with the groundbreaking practice of the model by Starbucks workers, Lynd and Gross make a compelling case for solidarity unionism as an effective, resilient, and deeply democratic approach to winning a voice on the job and in society.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- A Booklet series on practicing solidarity unionism?
- About the authors
- I. Introduction
- II. In the beginning
- Starbucks Workers Union (SWU)
- Update
- About PM Press.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9781604865042
- 1604865040
- 9781604865066
- 1604865067
- OCLC:
- 704412470
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