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Autoworkers Under the Gun

Author : Gregg Shotwell
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608461637
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Autoworkers Under the Gun written by Gregg Shotwell and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veteran autoworker and author of the pro-labor newsletter Live Bait & Ammo offers a blow-by-blow analysis of workers’ rights under attack. Greg Shotwell was a machine operator at General Motor’s Delphi division during its tragic spinoff from GM and eventual bankruptcy. He watched from a front-row seat as the United Auto Workers Union collaborated with antilabor policies that led to plant closings and cuts to wages and benefits. A dissident member of the UAW, Shotwell made a name for himself chronicling the outrages and absurdities of corporate managers and corrupt union leaders in his popular shop-floor newsletter, Live Bait & Ammo. Autoworkers Under the Gun collects Shotwell’s essential writings during that fateful period. These LB&A fliers quickly grew legs of their own, distributed by rank-and-file workers in auto plants across the United States and cited by industry analysts. Spanning a decade of autoworker resistance, this body of work stands as a call to action for a new generation of workers coming of age in recession-wracked America.

Autoworkers Under the Gun

Author : Gregg Shotwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Autoworkers Under the Gun written by Gregg Shotwell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Package King

Author : Joe Allen
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 164259217X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Package King written by Joe Allen and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An incisive history” of how a bicycle messenger service in Seattle became a global behemoth, and the labor battles along the way (Dissent). We may see their trademark brown trucks everywhere today, but few people know the behind-the-scenes story of United Parcel Service and how it became one of America’s most admired companies. This book reveals how UPS managed to displace General Motors—the very symbol of American capitalism—to become the largest private-sector unionized employer in the United States; its long, tumultuous history with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; and its effects on its workers and surrounding communities. It also explores the question of its future in the age of Amazon—as it battles to hold on to the throne of the Package King. “Get a copy of Allen’s book for yourself and then pass it on to a UPS driver the next time you get a delivery. She is part of the most organized section of what is possibly the most important industry in 21st-century capitalism, and the outcome of her story will have a lot to do with what our world looks like on the other side of this pandemic.” —Indypendent

The UAW's Southern Gamble

Author : Stephen J. Silvia
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501769723
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The UAW's Southern Gamble written by Stephen J. Silvia and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UAW's Southern Gamble is the first in-depth assessment of the United Auto Workers' efforts to organize foreign vehicle plants (Daimler-Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Volkswagen) in the American South since 1989, an era when union membership declined precipitously. Stephen J. Silvia chronicles transnational union cooperation between the UAW and its counterparts in Brazil, France, Germany, and Japan and documents the development of employer strategies that have proven increasingly effective at thwarting unionization. Silvia shows that when organizing, unions must now fight on three fronts: at the worksite; in the corporate boardroom; and in the political realm. The UAW's Southern Gamble makes clear that the UAW's failed campaigns in the South can teach hard-won lessons about challenging the structural and legal roadblocks to union participation and effectively organizing workers within and beyond the auto industry.

Can the Working Class Change the World?

Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583677127
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Can the Working Class Change the World? written by Michael D. Yates and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce” – where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals” – lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties – sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change. In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates asks if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class? If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location – to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class, and what all of us might do to change the world.

America’s Other Automakers

Author : Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820368156
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book America’s Other Automakers written by Timothy J. Minchin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory. Redressing this neglect, America’s Other Automakers provides a new history of the foreignowned auto sector, the first to extensively draw on archival sources and to articulate the human agency of participants, including workers, managers, and industry recruiters. Timothy J. Minchin challenges the view that the industry’s growth primarily reflected incentives, stressing human agency and the complexity of individual stories instead. Deeply human in its approach, the book also explores the industry’s impact on grassroots communities, showing that it had more costs than supporters acknowledged. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, America’s Other Automakers uncovers significant tensions over unionization, reports of discriminatory hiring, and unease about the industry’s rapid growth, critically exploring seven large assembly facilities and their impact on the communities in which they were built.

Work Work Work

Author : Michael Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679650
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Work Work Work written by Michael Yates and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other - and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective workers offer their services to individual employers, each acting solely out of self-interest and facing each other as equals. The forces of demand and supply operate so that there is neither a shortage nor a surplus of labor, and, in theory, workers and bosses achieve their respective ends. Michael D. Yates, in Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, offers a vastly different take on the nature of the labor market. This book reveals the raw truth: The labor market is in fact a mere veil over the exploitation of workers. Peek behind it, and we clearly see the extraction, by a small but powerful class of productive property-owning capitalists, of a surplus from a much larger and propertyless class of wage laborers. Work Work Work offers us a glimpse into the mechanisms critical to this subterfuge: In every workplace, capital implements a comprehensive set of control mechanisms to constrain those who toil from defending themselves against exploitation. These include everything from the herding of workers into factories to the extreme forms of surveillance utilized by today's "captains of industry" like the Walton family (of the Walmart empire) and Jeff Bezos"--

Save Our Unions

Author : Steve Early
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583674306
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Save Our Unions written by Steve Early and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform"--

A Freedom Budget for All Americans

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 158367361X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book A Freedom Budget for All Americans written by Paul Le Blanc and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two socialist thinkers revisit the Civil Rights-era Freedom Budget for All Americans, explaining its origins, its main goals and how it might be reimagined to help achieve economic equality today. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.

Revolt on Goose Island

Author : Kari Lydersen
Publisher : Melville House Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Revolt on Goose Island written by Kari Lydersen and published by Melville House Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an unexpected turn of events: Days after getting a £45 billion bailout from the US government, the Bank of America closed a line of credit for Chicago's Republic Windows and Doors factory. The factory owner shut down the business. Then something happened - the workers refused to leave the factory. This is the as-it-happened account of one of America's most inspiring stories from the frontline of the workers' struggle, as seen and documented by the award-winning Washington Post Journalist.

No, They Can't

Author : John Stossel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451640943
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book No, They Can't written by John Stossel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York Times" bestselling journalist John Stossel shows how the expansion of government control is destructive for American society.

Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

Author : Peter Shapiro
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 160846749X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Song of the Stubborn One Thousand written by Peter Shapiro and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How 1,000 Latina workers in Watsonville, California won an 18-month long strike . . . an inspiring tale” (Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects and The Lucky Ones) On September 9, 1985, a predominately Mexican group of one thousand women workers in Watsonville, California, the “frozen food capital of the world,” were forced out on strike in response to an attempt by Watsonville Canning owner Mort Console to break their union. They returned to work eighteen months later. Not one had crossed the picket line. A moribund union has been revitalized, and Watsonville’s Latino majority emerged as a major force in local politics. At a time when organized labor was in headlong retreat, the Watsonville Canning strike was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement. Apart from its sheer drama, the strikers’ story illuminates the challenges facing a group of ordinary working people who waged a protracted and ultimately successful struggle against seemingly insurmountable odds.

Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608466655
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization written by Kim Scipes and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores the international labor movements building worker solidarity across the Global South. Since the 1980s, the world’s working class has been under continual assault by the forces of neoliberalism and imperialism. In response, new labor movements have emerged all over the world—from Brazil and South Africa to Indonesia and Pakistan. Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization is a call for international solidarity to resist the assaults on labor’s power. This collection of essays by international labor activists and academics examines models of worker solidarity, different forms of labor organizations, and those models’ and organizations’ relationships to social movements and civil society.

Disposable Domestics

Author : Grace Chang
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608465284
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Disposable Domestics written by Grace Chang and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

Digital Depression

Author : Dan Schiller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096711
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Digital Depression written by Dan Schiller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift, instead introducing the world to the once-unthinkable idea of a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse. In Digital Depression, Dan Schiller delves into the ways networked systems and ICTs have transformed global capitalism during the so-called Great Recession. He focuses on capitalism's crisis tendencies to confront the contradictory matrix of a technological revolution and economic stagnation making up the current political economy and demonstrates digital technology's central role in the global political economy. As he shows, the forces at the core of capitalism--exploitation, commodification, and inequality--are ongoing and accelerating within the networked political economy.

The Long Deep Grudge

Author : Toni Gilpin
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590894
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Long Deep Grudge written by Toni Gilpin and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism.” —Ahmed A. White, author of The Last Great Strike This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines. International Harvester—and the McCormick family that largely controlled it—garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s, but in the twentieth century also pioneered sophisticated union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard corporate practice. On the other side the militant Farm Equipment Workers union, connected to the Communist Party, mounted a vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define the American labor movement after World War II. This evocative account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried through to the present, reads like a novel. Biographical sketches of McCormick family members, union officials and rank-and-file workers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz musicians, Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob lawyers. It touches on pivotal moments and movements as wide-ranging as the Haymarket “riot,” the Flint sit-down strikes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the McCarthy-era anti-communist purges, and America’s late twentieth-century industrial decline. “A capitalist family dynasty, a radical union, and a revolution in how and where work gets done—Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge is a detailed chronicle of one of the most active battlefronts in our ever-evolving class war.” —John Sayles

The Great Inequality

Author : Michael D Yates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317293231
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Great Inequality written by Michael D Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. It is and will continue to be the central issue of politics in almost every nation on earth. In this book, the author explains inequality in clear, passionate, and intelligent prose: what it is, why it matters, how it affects us, what its underlying causes are, and what we might do about it. This book was written to encourage informed radical action by working people, the unemployed, and the poor, uniquely blending the author’s own experiences with his ability to make complex issues comprehensible to a mass audience. This book will be excellent for courses in a variety of disciplines, and it will be useful to activists and the general reading public.