Solidarity Divided
The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 19. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-520-26156-3 (ISBN)
Description
The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, "Solidarity Divided" is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart changes in U.S. manufacturing, examine the onslaught of globalization, consider the influence of the environment on labor, and provide the first broad analysis of the fallout from the 2000 and 2004 elections on the U.S. labor movement. Ultimately calling for a wide-ranging re-examination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of today's labor movement, this is essential reading for understanding how the battle for social justice can be fought and won.
Reviews / Votes
"You must read Solidarity Divided." -- David A. Love Black Commentator "The book is necessary reading for all students of US labor history and the Left." -- Immanuel Ness Socialism And DemocracyMore details
Edition
First Edition, A new direction for labor by two of its leading activist intellectuals
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-26156-3 (9780520261563)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Bill Fletcher | Fernando Gapasin
Solidarity Divided
The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
E-Book
06/2008
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€34.49
Available for download
Persons
Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, is a columnist and long-time activist. He served as President of TransAfrica Forum and was formerly the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. He is the author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Relations, 1934-1941. Fernando Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President, Labor Educator, author, and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Preface: Revelations in South Africa Introduction: Change to Win and the Split in the AFL-CIO PART I. CHALLENGES FACING THE U.S. LABOR MOVEMENT 1. Dukin' It Out: Building the Labor Movement 2. The New Deal 3. The Cold War on Labor 4. The Civil Rights Movements, the Left, and Labor PART II. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED 5. Whose Welfare Matters, Anyway? 6. What's Left for Us? 7. Organizing to Organize the Unorganized PART III. SWEENEY'S GRAND GESTURE 8. The New Voice Coalition Takes Office 9. Developing Strategy in Times of Change 10. Globalization: The Biggest Strategic Challenge 11. Could'a, Would'a, Should'a: Central Labor Councils and Missed Opportunities 12. International Affairs, Globalization, and 9/11 PART IV. WHEN SILENCE ISN'T GOLDEN 13. Restlessness in the Ranks 14. Change to Win: A Return to Gompers? 15. Anger, Compromise, and the Paralysis of the Sweeney Coalition 16. Left Behind PART V. THE WAY FORWARD: SOCIAL JUSTICE UNIONISM 17. The Need for Social Justice Unionism 18. The Need for a Global Outlook 19. Realizing Social Justice Unionism: Strategies for Transformation Appendix A. A Process for Addressing the Future of U.S. Organized Labor Appendix B. Using Race, Class, and Gender Analysis to Transform Local Unions: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Authors