Title:
Labor rising : the past and future of working people in America
ISBN:
9781595585189
Publication Information:
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Dist., 2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 318 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Community and coalitions. Building a new working-class politics from below / Shelton Stromquist -- Learning from the right: a new operation Dixie? / Bethany Moreton and Pamela Voekel -- Reimagining a multicultural labor movement through education / Daniel Katz -- What labor looks like: from Wisconsin to Cairo, youth hold a mirror to history of workers' struggles / Michelle Chen -- Bringing the organizing tradition home: campus-labor-community partnerships for regional power / Nancy Maclean -- Place matters. Placing labor / Andrew Herod -- Home as work / Eileen Boris -- Contingent, transient, and at risk: modern workers in a gig economy / Richard A. Greenwald -- State and policy. Postmortem: yellow dogs and company-dominated elections / David Brody -- Solidarity, citizenship, and the opportunities of disasters / Jacob A.C. Remes -- The hour when the ship comes in / Leon Fink -- Getting over the New Deal / Jefferson Cowie -- Your American dream, my American nightmare / Kimberley L. Phillips --Pt. 1. Community and coalitions -- pt. 2. Place matters -- pt. 3. State and policy -- pt. 4. Political economy -- pt. 5. Beyond borders.
Political economy. Organized labor: Declining source of hope? / Bill Fletcher Jr. -- Eco-Keynesianism, green jobs, and labor's need to embrace climate justice / Andrew Ross -- On economics and labor solidarity / Marcellus Andrews -- Ghost marks and rising spirits in an industrial landscape: communication and imagination in the rebirth of labor / Elizabeth Faue -- Beyond borders. Immigrant workers and labor's future / Ruth Milkman -- The foundations of modern farm worker unionism: from UFW to PCUN / Matthew Garcia and Mario Sifuentez -- Supply-chain tourist: or how Wal-Mart has transformed the contemporary labor question / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Forgetting and remembering: workers, the U.S. empire, and the post-9/11 era / Dorothy Fujita-Rony -- Bananas, elephants, and a coup: learning international solidarity the hard way / Dana Frank.
Summary:
"When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state's public-sector employees in early 2011, the huge protests that erupted in response put the labor movement back on the nation's front pages. It was a fleeting reminder of a not-so-distant past when the 'labor question'--and the power of organized labor--was part and parcel of a century-long struggle for justice and equality in America. Now, on the heels of the expansive 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, the lessons of history--in seemingly short supply--are a vital handhold for the thousands of activists and citizens everywhere who sense that something has gone terribly wrong. This pithy but accessible volume provides readers with an understanding of the history that is directly relevant to the economic and political crises working people face today, and points the way to a revitalized twenty-first-century labor movement. With original contributions from leading labor historians, social critics, and activists, 'Labor Rising' makes crucial connections between the past and present, and then looks forward, asking how we might imagine a different future for all Americans"--
