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Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home
Collected for the first time, the essays that comprise Embedded With Organized Labor present a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from a longtime organizer and “participatory labor journalist.� Steve Early tackles the most pressing issues facing unions today and describes how workers have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past.
This wide–ranging collection deals with the dilemmas of union radicalism, the obstacles to institutional change within organized labor, and strategies for securing workers� rights in the new global economy. It also addresses questions hotly debated among union activists and friends of labor, including workers� rights as human rights, new forms of worker organization such as worker centers, union democracy, cross–border solidarity, race, gender, and ethnic divisions in the working class, and the lessons of labor history.
This wide–ranging collection deals with the dilemmas of union radicalism, the obstacles to institutional change within organized labor, and strategies for securing workers� rights in the new global economy. It also addresses questions hotly debated among union activists and friends of labor, including workers� rights as human rights, new forms of worker organization such as worker centers, union democracy, cross–border solidarity, race, gender, and ethnic divisions in the working class, and the lessons of labor history.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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May 5, 2022
This is a compilation of articles that Steve Early wrote. Most of them were written between 1990 and 2010. Steve is a former union organizer and labor representative. He write very well and the articles are very insightful. Most of them are 'dated' but they are interesting in how people were thinking of developments at the time he wrote the articles. A lot of things have changed and a lot of issues in the labor movement remain the same.
March 16, 2013
For someone who has worked for SEIU and has his own critical perspective, this book is very insightful and essential to get the big picture of how and why organized labor is in the state it is today.
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