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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
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92/100Author:
Jane F. McAlevey
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
January 7, 2020
From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a timely call-to-arms in favor of unions.
What The Reviewers Say
At times, the labor leader Jane McAlevey’s latest book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, reads like an army field manual, with the author as drill instructor.
McAlevey’s latest book, A Collective Bargain , arrives in a new moment of danger and rebellion. The author’s signature arguments are all here, but in the form of a primer on labor and democracy and framed for a general audience. She wrote the book in a rush (just 45 days, she says in the acknowledgments), and the loosely structured content reflects this haste: a mix of organizing shop talk, myth busters, interviews, case studies, and commentary on everything from Silicon Valley and Chinese manufacturing to employment case law and gun violence. But that’s mostly beside the point. McAlevey’s influence is such that the book, like her first two, is certain to be passed from hand to hand—and what more could an author ask for?.
A battle cry for union rights in a time hostile to labor organizations.
Labor activist McAleve...delivers a persuasive argument that the power of 'strong, democratic' trade unions can fix many of America’s social problems in this timely cri de coeur.
