The original, 1972 edition of Strike! has been posted on-line at libcom.org. Strike! Revised and Expanded is available for purchase at PM Press. April 1, 2014 Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated,… Read More »
PATRIOT COAL MINERS ASK: “WHO’S GOING TO STAND FOR ME?”
March 26, 2013 by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith This is a call for environmentalists and other critics of coal to come to the aid of America’s miners. Whenever government protection of workers health and safety or the environment rears its ugly head, America’s coal companies are quick to portray themselves as the coal… Read More »
SAVE THE HUMANS? COMMON PRESERVATION IN ACTION
October 1, 2011 “A medicine against apathy and political despair much-needs in the U.S. and the world today – Peter Marcuse, Columbia University “Jeremy Brecher’s work is astonishing and refreshing; and, God knows, necessary.” -Studs Terkel “I have never learned more useful knowledge about advocacy than from this book. -Mike Pertschuk, former chair, Federal Trade… Read More »
BANDED TOGETHER
May 1, 2011 ONE COMMUNITY’S RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION Click here to download a free pdf copy of Banded Together. Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community’s efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of… Read More »