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Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home
Contributor(s): Early, Steve (Author)
ISBN: 1583671897     ISBN-13: 9781583671894
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2009
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Annotation: Collected in print for the first time, the articles that comprise Embedded with Organized Labor present a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from one of the labor movementas most esteemed journalists and participants. Steve Early tackles the most pressing issues facing workers today and documents--although not uncritically--how workers have organized and responded to capitalas offensive in recent decades. This wide-ranging collection deals with the dilemmas of union radicalism, the obstacles to institutional change within organized labor, and strategies for securing workersa rights in the new global economy. It also addresses questions hotly debated among union activists and friends of labor, including workersa rights as human rights, new forms of worker organization such as worker centers, union democracy, cross-border solidarity, race, gender, and ethnic divisions in the working class, and the lessons of labor history.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
Dewey: 331.880
LCCN: 2009007931
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (0.95 lbs) 288 pages
 
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Collected for the first time, the essays that comprise Embedded With Organized Labor present a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from a longtime organizer and "participatory labor journalist." Steve Early tackles the most pressing issues facing unions today and describes how workers have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past.
This wide-ranging collection deals with the dilemmas of union radicalism, the obstacles to institutional change within organized labor, and strategies for securing workers' rights in the new global economy. It also addresses questions hotly debated among union activists and friends of labor, including workers' rights as human rights, new forms of worker organization such as worker centers, union democracy, cross-border solidarity, race, gender, and ethnic divisions in the working class, and the lessons of labor history.

Contributor Bio(s): Early, Steve: -

Steve Early has been an organizer, strike strategist, labor educator, and lawyer. He recently retired from his job as national staff member of the Communications Workers of America. Early's articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces have appeared in The Nation, New Politics, CounterPunch, The Progressive, American Prospect, Working USA, New Labor Forum, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and many other publications. He is currently completing a book on the role of 1960s activists in American unions.