Moody, Kim.

In Solidarity : Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (429 pages)

Intro -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part I -- 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 -- 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 -- Civil War, the "Great Recession," the Aftermath, and Beyond -- Appendix -- Toward the Working Class: An SDS Convention Position Paper -- Bibliography -- Notes -- About the author.

A thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays on applied Marxist theory and the future of labor unions.

9781608464586


Labor unions -- United States.


Electronic books.

HD6508.M677 2014eb

331.880973