Working Lives & Worker Militancy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working Lives & Worker Militancy write by Ravi Ahuja. This book was released on 2013. Working Lives & Worker Militancy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Papers presented at the International Workshop on "The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor in Modern South Asia", held at Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen in 2011.
Class Struggle Unionism
Class Struggle Unionism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Class Struggle Unionism write by Joe Burns. This book was released on 2022-03-01. Class Struggle Unionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democtractic and fighting labor movement.
Rebel Rank and File
Rebel Rank and File - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebel Rank and File write by Aaron Brenner. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Rebel Rank and File available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt. Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s. From the mid-1960s to 1981, rank-and-file workers in the United States engaged in a level of sustained militancy not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. Millions participated in one of the largest strike waves in US history. There were 5,716 stoppages in 1970 alone, involving more than 3 million workers. Contract rejections, collective insubordination, sabotage, organized slowdowns, and wildcat strikes were the order of the day. Workers targeted much of their activity at union leaders, forming caucuses to fight for more democratic and combative unions that would forcefully resist the mounting offensive from employers that appeared at the end of the postwar economic boom. It was a remarkable era in the history of US class struggle, one rich in lessons for today's labor movement.
Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle
Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle write by Robert Ovetz. This book was released on 2020. Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major new study looking at the catalysing role of workers' inquiries in the rebirth of a global labour movement from below
Southern Insurgency
Southern Insurgency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Insurgency write by Immanuel Ness. This book was released on 2016. Southern Insurgency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A book on the nature of the new, precarious industrial worker in the Global South - highlighting experimentation, solidarity and struggle.
