Rebel rank and file : labor militancy and revolt from below during the long 1970s / edited by Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner, and Cal Winslow.
Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt and "Rebel Rank and File" uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Verso,
2010.
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Foreword / Mike Hamlin
- Preface / Aaron Brenner
- Overview : The rebellion from below, 1965-81 / Cal Winslow
- The political economy of the rank-and-file rebellion / Robert Brenner
- Conflict, change, and economic policy in the long 1970s / Judith Stein
- Understanding the rank-and-file rebellion in the long 1970s / Kim Moody
- The United Farm Workers from the ground up / Frank Bardacke
- Rank-and-file movements in the United Mine Workers of America, early 1960s-early 1980s / Paul J. Nyden
- The tumultuous Teamsters of the 1970s / Dan La Botz
- Militancy in many forms : Teachers strikes and urban insurrection, 1967-74 / Marjorie Murphy
- Rank-and-file struggles at the telephone company / Aaron Brenner
- Rank-and-file opposition in the UAW during the long 1970s / A.C. Jones
- American Petrograd : Detroit and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers / Kieran Taylor
- "A spontaneous loss of enthusiasm" : Workplace feminism and the transformation of women's service jobs in the 1970s / Dorothy Sue Cobble
- The enduring legacy and contemporary relevance of labor insurgency in the 1970s / Steve Early.