Rebel Rank and File : Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s

ISBN-13: 9781844671748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 408 str.

Aaron Brenner

Opis

Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt. Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s.
From the mid-1960s to 1981, rank-and-file workers in the United States engagedin a level of sustained militancy not seen since the Great Depression and WorldWar II. Millions participated in one of the largest strike waves in US history.There were 5,716 stoppages in 1970 alone, involving more than 3 million workers.Contract rejections, collective insubordination, sabotage, organized slowdowns, and wildcat strikes were the order of the day.
Workers targeted much of their activity at union leaders, forming caucuses tofight for more democratic and combative unions that would forcefully resist themounting offensive from employers that appeared at the end of the postwareconomic boom. It was a remarkable era in the history of US class struggle, onerich in lessons for today s labor movement."