Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017-2023 - Couverture souple

Van Deusen, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798887440361

Editeur : PM Press, 2024

Synopsis

David Van Deusen charts the rise of the UNITED! ticket to create a progressive and militant labour union. He chronicles the many victories throughout his tenure including expanding union democracy into the rank and file, moving power away from single individuals and into democratic structures, supporting farm workers, supporting Black self-determination, and supporting Black Lives Matter. Van Deusen also managed to include support for the revolutionary efforts in Rojava and Chiapas. The boldest step undertaken by the Vermont AFL-CIO - and marker of years of steady progress in labour organising and raising of political consciousness in Vermont - was authorising a call for a general strike in the city of Burlington as a possible response to the January 6 coup attempt. This book should be of interest to anyone, whether they have merely thought of joining a union or are an old union hand. Most importantly, Insurgent Labor offers a blueprint for militant labour's advances in an era of capitalist polycrisis and offers hope for a brighter future based around equality, justice, and true democracy.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

David Van Deusen is a longtime libertarian-socalist thinker, organizer, and militant union leader. He has been President of the Vermont AFL-CIO since 2019 and is part of the progressive United! Slate. He is also a member of Democratic Socialists of America and a past member of Anti-Racist Action and the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-VT). Van Deusen resides in Northern Vermont.

Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in the New Republic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Baffler, the Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Esquire, among many others. She is the author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor and resides in Philadelphia, PA.

Steve Early has been active as a labor journalist, lawyer, organizer, or union representative since 1972. He is the author of Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home, The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?, and Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress. He lives in Port Richmond, CA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798887440361
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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