Labor Pains: Stories from Inside America's New Union MovementLabor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement. |
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... CHICAGO TO ME , Chicago's alter ego . Hers was not the city of big shoulders , but the city of little people moving together like a flock of annoying birds , flying in the face of the Machine like pigeons into a DC - 10 , losing more ...
... CHICAGO with a couple of years each of community and union organizing under my belt - just enough to land a job if I needed one — and I would take every bit of this with me into this massive project , this mono- lith , this myth , this ...
... Chicago . The first time I visited his union was two years before his death to help with an organizing campaign downtown . SEIU had about ten locals , or chapters , in the Chicago area , and our sister local needed staff support . I was ...