Description: "A guide to the changing landscape of the post-pandemic labor movement, from a veteran labor organizer"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Currently a senior strategist at the Economic Policy Institute, Dave Kamper is an organizer and writer with twenty-five years of experience working for unions in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Minnesota. Kamper has a PhD in history and his writing has appeared in Jacobin, Labor Notes, and other progressive publications. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Praise for Who's Got the Power?
"If American democracy survives MAGA, the critical difference will be our labor unions. Dave Kamper's book explains why. Witty, uncluttered, and, when need be, acerbic, it is the most useful book in decades about what the labor movement is and why it matters."
-Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
--Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor "The best overview of the recent labor upsurge we have yet seen. This will remain a must-read as the movement advances into the future."
--Erik Loomis, author of A History of America in Ten Strikes
"This book brings together a lot of Kamper's wisdom and experience, and the stories are told with compassion and a sense of humor."
--Eric Dirnbach, Labor Notes
"A bracing--and often inspiring--reminder of how much workers have won in recent years, and how little we can afford despair."--Democracy: A Journal of Ideas