Tag: Labor Activism
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US Unions Must Look Beyond Themselves to Save Themselves
Argues that unions in the US–and by implications elsewhere–need to reject business unionism for social justice unionism by using their power in workplace to not only back workers there, but to back working people in work places AND in the community, at the local, national and/or global levels. Either we work for good of all,…
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The Union Makes Us Strong: Understanding Trade Unionism in a Global Context
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Discusses the need for labor activists to go beyond “lowest common denominator” union organizing.
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The Wobblies in their Heyday
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Review of The Wobblies in their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era by Eric Chester (Praeger, 2014, hardbound; Levellers Press, 2016, paperback). Staughton Lynd The Wobblies are back. Many young radicals find the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) the most congenial available…
