As the economic crisis continues to ravage the globe, increasing numbers are looking for alternatives to the market.The Chicago Teachers Union, Walmart workers, Longshoreman on the West Coast, and many other labor struggles have recently broken out across the US. This has sent many searching for a better understanding of labor history, Marxism , and the future of of the labor movement. A social media campaign will be launched in support of the book. Reviews will be sought in left publications...
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline. Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions in the face of a domestic right turn and an epochal shift to globalized production. Eschewing alliances with new social...
