Rebuilding Labor from Below
A review of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress, by Steve Early
September 25, 2014
It’s no secret that the U.S. labor movement is in distress. To those who care about how to turn that situation around, Steve Early has a message worth reading in his Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress.
The book describes the problems facing workers—and some possible solutions such as organizing more union members, waging successful strikes, or developing new union leadership at the local or national level. The chapters are essays (many have appeared previously in various magazine and labor publications), most of which tell stories of real people and struggles.
Early doesn’t pull punches. The good guys and gals don’t always win. But sometimes they do, and those lessons are valuable for all of us…
Comments are closed.