Labor's Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today

In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all nonagricultural workers belonging to a union-and much higher percentages in the nation's key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized labor, founded Dissent magazine, which quickly became the publishing home for the most important progressive voices on American unions.



Today, at a time of both resurgent union organizing and socialist politics, the nee...