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Over the past two decades, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, their jobs out-sourced, sped up, and, all too often, eliminated. Unions have seemed powerless to defend their members, with big defeats in the strikes at PATCO...
Brief description: TOM JURAVICH is Professor and Director of the Labor Center of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of Commonwealth of Toil. KATE BRONFENBRENNER is Director of Labor Education Research for the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She is a coeditor of Organizing to Win, also from Cornell.
Review Quotes: "This record of the struggle and victory of Ravenswood workers and their community is exciting and inspiring, a marvelous account of courage and solidarity. It is also highly instructive. As the authors vividly show, the imaginative techniques that were devised to overcome the lockout yield many lessons for working people and unions in the face of 'new powerful yet diffuse corporate structures, ' and socioeconomic policies that enhance their power."--Noam Chomsky