The Jackson Project: War in the American Workplace

“When it comes to the issues confronting working people and their unions today, Phil Cohen knows what he’s talking about as few people do. . .through knowledge born og bare-knuckle-experience.”—Si Kahn

In the spring of 1989, union organizer Phil Cohen journeyed to Jackson, Tennessee, to sort out the troubled situation at a historic cotton mill. His task as a representative of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union was to rebuild a failing local and the problems were daunting; an...