Solidarity Divided: Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
"Solidarity Divided" by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin.
The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice.
A new direction for labor by two of its leading activist intellectuals.
"Solidarity Divided" is an attempt to provide a framework for activists who, in looking at the US trade union movement, are trying to figure out the origin and nature of the current crisis. It is NOT an attempt to examine every question relative to the development of the US working class, nor is it an exhaustive examination of each reform effort. It is particularly focused on efforts that began around 1995 with the coming to power of the John Sweeney administration in the AFL-CIO. The book additionally attempts to situate the current crisis within the context of the failures of a certain approach to unionism that is grounded in the thought and practice of Samuel Gompers, later amended with virulent anti-communism.
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