Readings on Union History and the Labor Movement
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement
Stanley Aronowitz
https://www.versobooks.com/books/1983-the-death-and-life-of-american-labor
Read a Review: https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2015/02/review-can-labor-save-itself
Video Interview with Stanley Aronowitz on the challenges for the labor movement to overcome.
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
Jane McAlevey
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-shortcuts-9780190624712?q=no%20shortcuts&lang=en&cc=us
Read a Review: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/jane-mcalevey-unions-organizing-workers-socialism/
Video Presentation by Jane McAlevey on Organizing for Power
Strike!
Jeremy Brecher
https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=574
Read a Review: https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/index.php?q=2025
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Robin D.G. Kelley
Valley Library Main Collection (HX91.A2 K45 2015 )
In Conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley
They’re Bankrupting Us! And 20 other Myths about Unions
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
https://www.beacon.org/Theyre-Bankrupting-Us-P916.aspx
Read a Review: https://labornotes.org/blogs/2012/08/review-tearing-apart-big-lies-about-big-labor
Presentation on They’re Bankrupting Us! by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Lessons from Wisconsin
article by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Jane McAlevey
Excerpt from the article:
Lessons from Wisconsin
One: Unions need to invest in mass participatory education. And two: they need to stop focusing on union rights.
https://janemcalevey.com/lessons-from-wisconsin/515/2012/06/