Labor Pains Stories from Inside America's New Union Movement

Name: Labor Pains Stories from Inside America's New Union Movement
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ISBN: 9781583670583

ISBN-10: 1583670580

ISBN-13: 9781583670583

Edition: 2001

Authors: Suzan Erem

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Labor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement. The role of the unions is defined mainly by larger economic and political agendas. While keeping these agendas clearly in sight, Erem focuses primarily on aspects of the life of the union which often remain hidden. The personal crises of union members become entangled in the work of the union. The energies of the union are focused not only on…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 9.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Suzan Erem is a freelance writer for unions and author of Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement (Monthly Review Press 2001). They are coauthors of Class Acts: An Anthropology of Service Workers and Their Union (Paradigm 2005).



Preface


Introduction


Prologue


Centrifugal Force



Make Way for a New Day



Spinning into the Job



No Reds in the Rainbow



Lois Anne's Labor Movement



The Stage Is Set



Union Staffer: A Job Description



Even the Dead



The Evolution of a President



Child's Play in the Toy Store



The Day I Got Freedom



Organizing: When It Works



A Toast to the Winners



Going in Unarmed



A White "N" and Other Slander



Barbie in Work Boots



Hanging Them Out to Dry



Enter a Health Care Giant


Futility



Another Night Alone



Still Can't Win for Losing



The Revival of the Boycott



The Mysterious Death of Josef



When Bullets Fly



The President Creates His Generals



The Violence Inside



Bad Boys



The Smell of Scotch



Playing the Race Card



Finding My Lines


Hope



Striking a Hospital



The Union Begins to Crumble



As United as We Get



A Home for the Holidays



Frogs in a Beaker



The Reverend Returns



Our Doors



From the Beginning



Going East?



The Struggle Continues


Epilogue