Labor power and strategy / John Womack Jr., Peter Olney, and Glenn Perusek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Womack, John, Jr., author.

Olney, Peter, author.

Perusek, Glenn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--United States.

Labor movement.

Political participation--United States.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

Summary:

What would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organize those without hope working on the margins? In Labor Power and Strategy, legendary strategist, historian and labor organizer John Womack, speaks directly to a new generation, providing rational, radical, experience-based perspectives that help target and run smart, strategic, effective campaigns in the working class In this sleek, practical, pocket inspiration, Womack lays out a timely plan for identifying chokepoints and taking advantage of supply chain issues in order to seize and build labor power and solidarity. Interviewed by Peter Olney of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Womack's lively, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten young labor organizers and educators, whose responses create a rich dialogue and open a space for joyful, achievable change. With stories of triumph that will bring readers to tears this back-pocket primer is an instant classic.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Situating Womack

The "Foundry Interviews"

Should Spartacus Have Organized the Roman Citizenry Rather Than the Slaves?

Relaying These Insights Is More Urgent Now Than Ever

No Magic Bullet: Technically Strategic Power Alone Is Not Enough

Organizing Strategic Workers on "the Seam": A Response to the "Foundry Interviews" with John Womack Jr.

Associational Power, Too

An Opinion in the Context of the "Foundry Interviews"

Who Will Lead the Campaign?

How to Read Womack

Abandon the Banking Method! To Build Solidarity, We Must Practice a Liberatory Pedagogy

Thirty-Two Thousand Hogs and Not a Drop to Drink

Reflections on Ten Comradely Responses to the "Foundry Interviews"

Epilogue? No, an Update and Directions

Acknowledgments

Selected Historical Biographies

Notes

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62963-989-3

OCLC:

1349280498