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Workers\u2019 only real bargaining power is their ability to stop production and, to do this,\u00a0workers must fight as a class. By abandoning these tactics, unions have lost their ability\u00a0to defend the working class. Explains what it will take to revive the strike and regain lost ground.<\/p>\n
Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, Middle-class professionals dominate most unions and social movements.\u00a0How can working people organize to challenge them?<\/p>\n Autoworkers Under the Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Gregg Shotwell (2011).<\/p>\n Autoworker Gregg Shotwell shows how General Motors and its junior partner, the United Auto Workers (UAW) bureaucracy, stole workers\u2019 pensions, slashed wages and shed jobs to help expand GM’s global empire.<\/p>\n The Civil Wars in US Labor<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Steve Early (2011).<\/p>\n Chronicles the corruption, back-stabbing, power-grabbing, and opportunistic alliances that have characterized recent turf wars among American unions. Why did a generation of activists fail to democratize the unions, and what must we do differently\u00a0to avoid repeating that failure?<\/p>\n Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin (2008)<\/p>\n Argues that unions must undergo a fundamental transformation to champion the interests of the entire working class. Is this possible?<\/p>\n The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Susan Rosenthal (2010).<\/p>\n Chile showed that a challenge to class inequality in the medical system is a challenge to the capitalist system as a whole.\u00a0Consequently, any serious movement for reform must prepare to fight a class war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summertime, when the living’s no longer easy, retains its tradition of book lists and reading. The following come highly recommended: Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power\u00a0and transform America\u00a0by Joe Burns (2011). Workers\u2019 only real bargaining power is … Continue reading
\nand Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Susan Rosenthal (2009).<\/p>\n