Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress
by Steve Early
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2013, 304pp, $22pb, ISBN 9781583674277
Reviewed by Luke Elliott-Negri in
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Save Our Unions is a sprawling collection of essays, covering everything from the Bread and Roses strike of 1912 to the current struggles of the British Labour Party. The text includes movie and book reviews, as well as journalistic accounts of many contemporary U.S. labor struggles, and even author Steve Early’s personal experience over many years of working for the Communication Workers of America (CWA). The book will offer practitioners a wealth of details with strategic implications for ongoing efforts. Academics will find hints of theory throughout, and a series of cases with implications for longstanding debates in labor and social movement studies….
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