In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States

by Kim Moody

Overview

In this thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays, Kim Moody, one of the world's most authoritative and recognized labor writers, analyzes the past, present, and future of unions in the United States. With a sharp understanding of Marxist theory and labor history, Moody charts a well-reasoned course for the future of rank-and-file struggle.

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a senior research fellow at the Work and Employment Unit of the University of Hertfordshire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608463268
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	04/29/2014
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes. He currently lives in the UK where is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a Senior Research Fellow at the Work and Employment Unit of the University of Hertfordshire.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Part I Class Struggle-Theory and Strategy

1 Marx's Theory of Class and the World Today 3

2 Unions, Strikes, and Class Consciousness Today 19

3 Contextualizing Organized Labor in Expansion and Crisis: The Case of the United States 47

4 The Rank-and-File Strategy 75

5 Updating the Rank-and-File Strategy 149

6 General Strikes, Mass Strikes: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You 163

Part II The Future of Unions in the United States

7 Beating the Union: Union Avoidance in the United States, 1945 to the Present 183

8 Union Organizing in the United States: Why It Isn't Working and How It Might 205

9 Striking Out in America: Is There an Alternative to the Strike? 227

10 Competition and Conflict: Union Growth in the US Hospital Industry 249

11 Immigrant Workers and Labor in the United States 275

Epilogue: Civil War, the "Great Recession," the Aftermath, and Beyond 299

Appendix: Toward the Working Class: An SDS Convention Position Paper 317

Notes 333

Bibliography 355

Index 383