Rebel Rank And File

Author : Aaron Brenner,Cal Winslow,Robert Brenner
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789600896

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Rebel Rank and File by Aaron Brenner,Cal Winslow,Robert Brenner Pdf

Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt. Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s. From the mid-1960s to 1981, rank-and-file workers in the United States engaged in a level of sustained militancy not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. Millions participated in one of the largest strike waves in US history. There were 5,716 stoppages in 1970 alone, involving more than 3 million workers. Contract rejections, collective insubordination, sabotage, organized slowdowns, and wildcat strikes were the order of the day. Workers targeted much of their activity at union leaders, forming caucuses to fight for more democratic and combative unions that would forcefully resist the mounting offensive from employers that appeared at the end of the postwar economic boom. It was a remarkable era in the history of US class struggle, one rich in lessons for today's labor movement.

Author : Aaron Brenner,Robert Brenner,Cal Winslow
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844671748

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Rebel Rank and File by Aaron Brenner,Robert Brenner,Cal Winslow Pdf

Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt. Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s. From the mid-1960s to 1981, rank-and-file workers in the United States engaged in a level of sustained militancy not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. Millions participated in one of the largest strike waves in US history. There were 5,716 stoppages in 1970 alone, involving more than 3 million workers. Contract rejections, collective insubordination, sabotage, organized slowdowns, and wildcat strikes were the order of the day. Workers targeted much of their activity at union leaders, forming caucuses to fight for more democratic and combative unions that would forcefully resist the mounting offensive from employers that appeared at the end of the postwar economic boom. It was a remarkable era in the history of US class struggle, one rich in lessons for today’s labor movement.

Author : Dan La Botz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015019849325

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Rank and File Rebellion by Dan La Botz Pdf

Author : David Brenner
Publisher : Southeast Asia Program Publications
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501740107

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Rebel Politics by David Brenner Pdf

Rebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) returned to the trenches in 2011 after its own seventeen-year-long ceasefire broke down. To understand these puzzling changes, Brenner conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the KNU and KIO, analyzing the relations between rebel leaders, their rank-and-file, and local communities in the context of wider political and geopolitical transformations. Drawing on Political Sociology, Rebel Politics explains how revolutionary elites capture and lose legitimacy within their own movements and how these internal contestations drive the strategies of rebellion in unforeseen ways. Brenner presents a novel perspective that contributes to our understanding of contemporary politics in Southeast Asia, and to the study of conflict, peace and security, by highlighting the hidden social dynamics and everyday practices of political violence, ethnic conflict, rebel governance and borderland politics.

Author : Dan Schiller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Telecommunications
ISBN : 9780197639238

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Crossed Wires by Dan Schiller Pdf

"During the first century of the republic, two modes of communication at a distance - telecommunications - were etched into lands inhabited by Native Americans; contested by rival European powers; and occupied by the United States. Both telecommunications systems supported this expanding US territorial empire but, despite this overarching commonality, they branched apart in other ways. One network was owned by the state and the other by capital, and the two branches of the telecommunications system developed disparate rate structures, patterns of access, and social and institutional relationships. During the decades after the Civil War their divergence became politically charged. Would one model prevail over the other? Going forward, would it be the government Post Office or the corporate telegraph that set the terms of telecommunications development? The Post Office was the nation's originating system for communication at a distance. Both before and long after it was elevated to a cabinet department in 1829, furthermore, the Post Office was by far the largest unit of the central state. In 1831, the nation's 8700 postmasters comprised three-quarters of federal civilian employment; half a century later (excluding temporary postal employees and ordinary and railway mail clerks and letter carriers), some 50,000 postmasters accounted for perhaps one-third of all civilian employees in the executive branch. Though its relative weight as a government employer diminished after this, its workforce continued to swell. During the last two antebellum decades, meanwhile, an emergent technology - the electrical telegraph - was passed quickly from the federal government to private capital. The two systems' institutional identities immediately began to contrast in other ways"--

Author : Steve Early
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583674307

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Save Our Unions by Steve Early Pdf

"Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor's past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book's insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform"--

Author : Elizabeth Faue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136175503

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Rethinking the American Labor Movement by Elizabeth Faue Pdf

Rethinking the American Labor Movement tells the story of the various groups and incidents that make up what we think of as the "labor movement." While the efforts of the American labor force towards greater wealth parity have been rife with contention, the struggle has embraced a broad vision of a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and a desire for workers to have greater control over their own lives. In this succinct and authoritative volume, Elizabeth Faue reconsiders the varied strains of the labor movement, situating them within the context of rapidly transforming twentieth-century American society to show how these efforts have formed a political and social movement that has shaped the trajectory of American life. Rethinking the American Labor Movement is indispensable reading for scholars and students interested in American labor in the twentieth century and in the interplay between labor, wealth, and power.

Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UVA:X000880015

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History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 by William Hamilton Maxwell Pdf

Author : Karl D. Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520318212

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Traditional Authority, Islam, and Rebellion by Karl D. Jackson Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Author : William Hamilton MAXWELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Ireland
ISBN : BL:A0017078293

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History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 by William Hamilton MAXWELL Pdf

Author : Steve Fraser
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316333740

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The Age of Acquiescence by Steve Fraser Pdf

A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year.

Author : William Hamilton MAXWELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019682724

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History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 ... Fourth edition. [Illustrated by George Cruickshank]. by William Hamilton MAXWELL Pdf

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198866787

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The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies by Martin Thomas Pdf

"For several decades conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent form of organised political violence worldwide. Most intra-state conflicts since 1945 have originated in insurgencies, not just against incumbent regimes but, more often, against those regimes' external sponsors, whether imperial governments or dominant regional powers. This Handbook focuses on the former group, on the insurgencies and counter-insurgencies fought out as European overseas empires collapsed. Seeking to identify the causal dynamics and violence processes of such violent decolonization, the Handbook will address the most taxing problems in conflict limitation: how to constrain the actions of insurgents and counter-insurgents in asymmetric 'guerrilla wars'; how to mitigate the consequences of proxy involvement in intra-state conflicts; and how to protect civilians in war zones where combatant-non-combatant distinctions have broken down. Underlying these questions is a unifying theme - and a core Handbook objective - the need to recognize the cultural practices of insurgent movements and counter-insurgent forces as a prerequisite to comprehending their violence"--

Author : William Howard Merrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Richmond (Va.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037447851

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Five Months in Rebeldom, Or, Notes from the Diary of a Bull Run Prisoner, at Richmond by William Howard Merrell Pdf

Author : Rosemary Feurer,Chad Pearson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252099311

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Against Labor by Rosemary Feurer,Chad Pearson Pdf

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as the intersection of race and ethnicity with anti-labor activity, and anti-unionism in the context of neoliberalism. Timely and revealing, Against Labor deepens our understanding of management history and employer activism and their metamorphic effects on workplace and society. Contributors: Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Rosemary Feurer, Dolores E. Janiewski, Thomas A. Klug, Chad Pearson, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger, and Robert Woodrum.