May 14, 1998 This is the third in a series on rank-and-file labor struggles over the last 25 years While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most… Read More »
LABOR AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE’DIS-INTEGRATED’ CORPORATION
March 12, 1998 By Tim Costello & Jeremy Brecher In the past quarter-century, capitalism has undergone a revolutionary restructuring in the United States and worldwide. Meanwhile, the American labor movement retains the basic structure it established more than half a century ago. Organized labor will have a future if and only if it… Read More »
HISTORY FROM BELOW: HOW TO UNCOVER AND TELL THE STORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY, ASSOCIATION, OR UNION (REVISED EDITION)
December 31, 1997 PREFACE: In an age when “how to” books deal with self-centered making out, whether in commerce or sex, Jeremy Brecher’s work is astonishing and refreshing; and, God knows, necessary. History From Below is an exciting primer, enabling “ordinary” people, non-academics, to recover their own personal and community’s pasts. At a time… Read More »
AMERICAN LABOR ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENIUM
December 14, 1997 Periods of mass strike don’t last forever. If they don’t lead to fundamental social change, they are likely to be followed by a truce between workers and employers, by a gradual erosion of workers’ gains, or by cascading defeats. Gradually or rapidly, workers’ assertiveness, autonomy, and solidarity diminish. Some turn to… Read More »
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