Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism. Recent years have seen great changes in the trade union movement, from waves of strikes in the 1970s to a battery of employer and state onslaughts, culminating in the anti-union legislation of the 1980s and 1990s. Looking at grassroots labour struggles, Cohen explores issues of reformism, trade union democracy and the political meaning of ordinary workplace resistance, and puts forward ideas for change....
Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new...
Notoriously Militant is a primer on worker militancy. 'Ordinary' workers made history every day, through direct democracy and members' activity in their local T&GWU branch. The author explores links between everyday workplace struggles and movements for broader change; and outlines the dangers of union-management 'co-operation'. She interweaves stories of gender and ethnicity issues within the structures of a class-based industrial workplace.
Notoriously Militant is a primer on worker militancy. 'Ordinary' workers made history every day, through direct democracy and members' activity in th...
