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Troublemaking : why you should organize your workplace / Lydia Hughes, Jamie Woodcock.
Lippincott Library HD6490.O7 H84 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Lydia, author.
- Woodcock, Jamie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--Organizing.
- Labor unions.
- Labor unions--Political activity.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 195 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2023.
- Summary:
- Struggles can change the world, but they also change people who go through them. Rather than using action as a last resort, we need action to build a movement. Second, the need to build the rank-and-file of unions. Power comes from organising at work, not in trusting others to do it on our behalf. Third, democracy matters in organising. This is not only about winning, but also developing the confidence to build another kind of world. This is not a "how to" guide, but a set of principles for the politics of organising.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The troublemakers
- No excuses
- Fighting for control
- Winning big
- Demanding more
- Fighting for liberation
- 'So, what do you do?'
- Work
- Capitalism
- Why work?
- Time is money
- Management
- Bosses
- Managers
- Conflict
- Wage theft
- Resistance
- Trade unionism
- The bureaucracy and rank and file
- Organizing today
- The art of troublemaking
- Workers' inquiries
- Action
- The rank and file
- Democracy
- The bigger horizon
- Conclusion: putting troublemaking into practice
- Get organized.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195).
- ISBN:
- 9781839767104
- 1839767103
- OCLC:
- 1370615246
- Publisher Number:
- 90100790182
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