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This book is an exuberant and eloquent testament to this fight, and a reminder to every worker—employed or unemployed; in a union or out—that an injury to one is an injury to all. That the United Electrical Workers Union was still alive at the end of the s, a decade of red-baiting, raids, and repression against the labor left, has been.

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Powell's is an independent bookstore based in Portland, Oregon. Browse staff picks, author features, and more. There is Power in a Union. Philip Dray. The post-WWII period, by contrast, is a story of union conservatism, corruption scandals, and one rout after another at the hands of union-busting corporations abetted by government indifference.

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Call or email. The next crucial step is asking which pieces of the model can be applied or adapted to building a force within the union to get the model on the union’s agenda.

Alongside this, we have been struggling with how to combine building the union with raising larger, more political questions.

This book is a history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth-century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for their share of American bounty has shaped our national experience.4/5(2).

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“It’s pretty awesome to hear a three-year-old saying ‘union power,’” Nagara said in a YES. magazine interview. Unions work like a democracy. They hold elections for officers who make decisions on behalf of members, giving workers more power on the job. A local union is a locally-based group of workers with a charter from a national or international union such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) or United Auto Workers (UAW).

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