The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's

The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement

The decline of the American union movementâ€”and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time comingâ€”the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker.
In the â€™50s and â€™60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness was a landmark in the study of the US working-class and workersâ€™ movements.
Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historianâ€™s understanding of American workersâ€™ struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of laborâ€™s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workersâ€™ movement.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-10-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-10-07
Format	Kindle eBook

The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement

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