Raising Expectations and Raising Hell: My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement - Couverture rigide

McAlevey, Jane; Ostertag, Bob

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844678857 ISBN 13 : 9781844678853

Editeur : Verso Books, 2012

Synopsis

Only about 7.5 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage since the beginning of the twentieth century, and public employee collective bargaining is under fire in Wisconsin, Ohio, and elsewhere. What happened to the US labor movement? Jane McAlevey swept to fame - and notoriety - as the hard-charging "Hurricane Jane" who helped make Las Vegas one of the few labor success stories of recent years. Then she was bounced from the movement, a victim of the high-level internecine warfare that has torn apart organized labor. In an engrossing, suspenseful and funny narrative - that reflects the personality of its charismatic, intense and wise-cracking author - McAlevey tells the story of her amazing organizing victories and lifts the lid on the civil wars inside organized labor. LABOR'S LAST STAND unearths the reasons for the movement's downfall and emphatically argues that labor can be revived.

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À propos de l'auteur

JANE McALEVEY has been an organizer in the labor and environmental justice movements for the last twenty years. She is a PhD candidate at CUNY Graduate Center and lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844678857
• ISBN 13: 9781844678853
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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