Kim Moody

In Solidarity

Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

A thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays on applied Marxist theory and the future of labor unions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781608463268
• ISBN-10: 1608463265
• Artikelnr.: 37724839

Autorenporträt

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes. He currently lives in the UK where is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a Senior Research Fellow at the Work and Employment Unit of the University of Hertfordshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Socialism & The Working Class: Seeking the Connection in
America
Part I Class Struggle : Theory and Strategy
1) 2012 'Marx's Concept of Class Struggle' in Marcello Musto (ed.), Marx
for Today (forthcoming)
2) 2010 "Understanding the Rank and File Rebellion of the Long 1970s," in
Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner and Calvin Winslow (eds.), Rebel Rank and
File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s, London,
Verso .
3) 1998 (with Sheila Cohen), "Unions, Strikes and Class Consciousness
Today" Socialist Register 1998, New York, Monthly Review Press.
4) 2012 "Contextualising Organised Labour in Expansion and Crisis: The Case
of the US" Historical Materialism 20(1): 3-30.
5) Ca. 2000 "The Rank and File Strategy", Detroit, Solidarity
6) 2012 "Updating the Rank and File Strategy"
7) 2012 "The General Strike" Against the Current #160 September/October
2012
Part II The Future of Unions in the US
8) 2009 "The Direction of Union Mergers in the U.S.: The Rise of
Conglomerate Unionism" British Journal of Industrial Relations 47(4):
676-700.
9) 2013 "Beating the Union, Union Avoidance in the US 1945 to the Present"
in G. Gall and T. Dundon (eds.), Global anti-unionism-nature , dynamics,
trajectories and outcomes London, Palgrave.
10) 2009 "Union Organising in the United States," in Gregor Gall (ed.), The
Future of Union Organising, London, Palgrave.
11) 2013 "Striking Out in America: Is There an Alternative to the Strike?"
in Gregor Gall (ed.), New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work ,
London, Palgrave .
12) 2012 "Competition & Conflict: Unions in the US Hospital Industry"
Economic & Industrial Democracy (forthcoming).
Part III Urban Politics, Immigrant Workers & Poverty: Then & Now
13) 1967 "Poverty and Politics" New Politics Vol. VI No. 2, 1967.
14) 2007 "Beneath the Skyline" Chapter 7 in Kim Moody From Welfare State to
Real Estate, New York, The New Press.
15) 2009 "Immigrant Workers and Labor/Community Organizations in the United
States," in Jo McBride and Ian Greenwood, Community Unionism: A Comparative
Analysis of Concepts and Contexts, London, Palgrave. This is the Socialist
Register version. 2007?, but you will need permission from both.
Part IV The 'Sixties'
16) 1966 "Toward the Working Class: A Position Paper for the New Left"
Berkeley CA, Independent Socialist Committee.
17) 2012 "Incidents in the Education of an American Socialist, 1959-1966.
(Unpublished memoir)
Part V Epilogue