
Rebel Rank and File
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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.
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Robert Brenner is Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of The Boom and the Bubble, Merchants and Revolution, The Economics of Global Turbulence and co-editor of Rebel Rank and File.
Cal Winslow is Director of the Mendocino Institute and Fellow in Environmental Politics, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, and co-editor of Rebel Rank and File.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Overview: The Rebellion from Below, 1965-81
- 2. The Political Economy of the Rank-and-File Rebellion
- 3. Conflict, Change, and Economic Policy in the Long 1970s
- 4. Understanding the Rank-and-File Rebellion in the Long 1970s
- 5. The United Farm Workers from the Ground Up
- 6. Rank-and-File Movements in the United Mine Workers of America, Early 1960s-Early 1980s
- 7. The Tumultuous Teamsters of the 1970s
- 8. Militancy in Many Forms: Teachers Strikes and Urban Insurrection, 1967-74
- 9. Rank-and-File Struggles at the Telephone Company
- 10. Rank-and-File Opposition in the UAW During the Long 1970s
- 11. American Petrograd: Detroit and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
- 12. "A Spontaneous Loss of Enthusiasm": Workplace Feminism and the Transformation of Women?s Service Jobs in the 1970s
- 13. The Enduring Legacy and Contemporary Relevance of Labor Insurgency in the 1970s
- List of Contributors
- Notes
- Index
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