Labor Rising The Past and Future of Working People in America

Name: Labor Rising The Past and Future of Working People in America
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ISBN: 9781595585189

ISBN-10: 1595585184

ISBN-13: 9781595585189

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard Greenwald, Daniel Katz

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List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 7/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.26" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Daniel Katz is Professor of History and Dean of Labor Studies at the National Labor College. A former union organizer, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in New York City.



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction




Community and Coalitions


Building a New Working-Class Politics from Below



Learning from the Right: A New Operation Dixie?



Reimagining a Multicultural Labor Movement Through Education



What Labor Looks Like: From Wisconsin to Cairo, Youth Hold a Mirror to History of Workers' Struggles



Bringing the Organizing Tradition Home: Campus-Labor-Community Partnerships for Regional Power




Place Matters


Placing Labor



Home as Work



Contingent, Transient, and At-Risk: Modern Workers in a Gig Economy




State and Policy


Postmortem: Yellow Dogs and Company-Dominated Elections



Solidarity, Citizenship, and the Opportunities of Disasters



The Hour When the Ship Comes In



Getting Over the New Deal



Your American Dream, My American Nightmare




Political Economy


Organized Labor: Declining Source of Hope?



Eco-Keynesianism, Green Jobs, and Labor's Need to Embrace Climate Justice



On Economics and Labor Solidarity



Ghost Marks and Rising Spirits in an Industrial Landscape: Communication and Imagination in the Rebirth of Labor




Beyond Borders


Immigrant Workers and Labor's Future



The Foundations of Modern Farm Worker Unionism: From UFW to PCUN



Supply-Chain Tourist: Or How Wal-Mart Has Transformed the Contemporary Labor Question



Forgetting and Remembering: Workers, the U.S. Empire, and the Post-9/11 Era



Bananas, Elephants, and a Coup: Learning International Solidarity the Hard Way



Afterword: Labor Rising?



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