Solidarity Divided
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Solidarity Divided

The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Solidarity Divided

The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice

About this book

The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart changes in U.S. manufacturing, examine the onslaught of globalization, consider the influence of the environment on labor, and provide the first broad analysis of the fallout from the 2000 and 2004 elections on the U.S. labor movement. Ultimately calling for a wide-ranging reexamination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of today's labor movement, this is essential reading for understanding how the battle for social justice can be fought and won.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction: Change to Win and the Split in the AFL-CIO
  5. PART 1. CHALLENGES FACING THE U.S. LABOR MOVEMENTS
  6. 1. Dukin' It Out
  7. 2. The New Deal
  8. 3. The Cold War on Labor
  9. 4. The Civil Rights Movements, The Left, and Labor
  10. PART 2. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
  11. 5. Whose Welfare Matters, Anyway?
  12. 6. What's Left For Us?
  13. 7. Organize to Organize the Unorganized
  14. PART 3. SWEENEY'S GRAND GESTURE
  15. 8. The New Voice Coalition Takes Office
  16. 9. Developing Strategy in Times of Change
  17. 10. Globalization
  18. 11. Could'a, Would'a, Should'a
  19. 12. International Affairs, Globalization, and 9/11
  20. PART 4. WHEN SILENCE ISN'T GOLDEN
  21. 13. Restlessness in the Ranks
  22. 14. Change to Win
  23. 15. Anger, Compromise, and the Paralysis of the Sweeney Coalition
  24. 16. Left Behind
  25. PART 5. THE WAY FORWARD
  26. 17. The Need for Social Justice Unionism
  27. 18. The Need for a Global Outlook
  28. 19. Realizing Social Justice Unionism
  29. Appendix A
  30. Appendix B
  31. Notes
  32. Bibliography
  33. Acknowledgments
  34. Index
  35. About the Authors