Hard-pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor MovementHard-Pressed in the Heartland tells the heartbreaking but empowering story of a spirited local union trying to resist management's drive for concessions--while fending off a conservative national union leadership unwilling to support its own members. Going beyond academic history, it offers useful perspectives for rebuilding a democratic, militant, community-based unionism that can succeed where today's bureaucratic unionism cannot. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
U S Labor in the 1980s | 9 |
P9s Militant Predecessor | 27 |
Revitalizing the Local Union | 45 |
Solidarity and Struggle | 61 |
CounterAttack and Defeat | 75 |
The Future of the Labor Movement | 91 |
Chronology of the Hormel Conflict | 113 |
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