A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

This book is a vital call to arms to protect and increase union participation in the US. From a longtime labor organizer, the author will dive into the skewed system of syndicalism in the United States and the history behind it all. It will explain how corporatism, intentional racism, greed, and such a system has allowed things to go as badly as they have. Not all is grim; the author shows the data suggesting unions are on the rise, but she will lay out the challenges these face and the hurdles they must overcome even in day to day operations and specialized labor actions. The author will travel to a diversity of work settings that are working to make their jobs not only places that are tolerable, but places that work better, more gracefully, where representations, safety, and wages favor the people that do the work.

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