Raising Expectations and Raising Hell: My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement - Hardcover

Mcalevey, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844678857 ISBN 13: 9781844678853

Verlag: Verso Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Only about 7.5 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage since the beginning of the twentieth century,and public employee collective bargaining is under fire in Wisconsin,Ohio, and elsewhere. What happened to the US labor movement?

Jane McAlevey swept to fame—and notoriety—as the hard-charging “Hurricane Jane” who helped make Las Vegas one of the few labor success stories of recent years. Then she was bounced from the movement, a victim of the high-level internecine warfare that has torn apart organized labor. In an engrossing, suspenseful and funny narrative—that reflects the personality of its charismatic, intense and wise-cracking author—McAlevey tells the story of her amazing organizing victories and lifts the lid on the civil wars inside organized labor. Labor’s Last Stand unearths the reasons for the movement’s downfall and emphatically argues that labor can be revived.

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Jane McAlevey Jane McAlevey spent twenty-five years as an organizer in the student, environmental, and trade union movements. She is a Contributing Writer at the Nation, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844678857
• ISBN 13: 9781844678853
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 325
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