Labor Rising

by Katz, Daniel; Greenwald, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9781595585189
• ISBN10: 1595585184
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

At a time of high unemployment, failing economies and slashed public spending, what does the future hold? On the heels of the expansive Occupy movement, the lessons of history are a vital handhold for the thousands of activists and citizens everywhere who sense that something has gone terribly wrong. This pithy yet accessible volume provides readers with an understanding of the history that is directly relevant to the economic and political crises working people face today. Labor Rising points the way to a revitalized 21st century labour movement.

Author Biography

Daniel Katz is a professor of history and the dean of labor studies at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. A former union organizer, he sits on the boards of the New York State Labor History Association and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. He is the author of All Together Different-Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism. He lives in Brooklyn. RICHARD A. GREENWALD is a professor of history and social sciences and the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn. He is the author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era Hew York. He blags on workplace issues for In These Times and has written for The Progressive, Businessweek online, the Brooklyn Rail, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Queens, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Community and Coalitions	p. 11
Building a New Working-Class Politics from Below	p. 14
Learning from the Right: A New Operation Dixie?	p. 26
Reimagining a Multicultural Labor Movement Through Education	p. 37
What Labor Looks Like: From Wisconsin to Cairo, Youth Hold a Mirror to History of Workers' Struggles	p. 53
Bringing the Organizing Tradition Home: Campus-Labor-Community Partnerships for Regional Power	p. 65
Place Matters	p. 81
Placing Labor	p. 83
Home as Work	p. 100
Contingent, Transient, and At-Risk: Modern Workers in a Gig Economy	p. 111
State and Policy	p. 123
Postmortem: Yellow Dogs and Company-Dominated Elections	p. 126
Solidarity, Citizenship, and the Opportunities of Disasters	p. 143
The Hour When the Ship Comes In	p. 154
Getting Over the New Deal	p. 164
Your American Dream, My American Nightmare	p. 174
Political Economy	p. 189
Organized Labor: Declining Source of Hope?	p. 191
Eco-Keynesianism, Green Jobs, and Labor's Need to Embrace Climate Justice	p. 201
On Economics and Labor Solidarity	p. 214
Ghost Marks and Rising Spirits in an Industrial Landscape: Communication and Imagination in the Rebirth of Labor	p. 227
Beyond Borders	p. 237
Immigrant Workers and Labor's Future	p. 240
The Foundations of Modern Farm Worker Unionism: From UFW to PCUN	p. 253
Supply-Chain Tourist: Or How Wal-Mart Has Transformed the Contemporary Labor Question	p. 267
Forgetting and Remembering: Workers, the U.S. Empire, and the Post-9/11 Era	p. 278
Bananas, Elephants, and a Coup: Learning International Solidarity the Hard Way	p. 289
Afterword: Labor Rising?	p. 303
About the Contributors	p. 313
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