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Product Identifiers

PublisherPM Press

ISBN-101629638005

ISBN-139781629638003

eBay Product ID (ePID)24038778290

Product Key Features

Book TitleStrike!

Number of Pages640 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicLabor & Industrial Relations, Study & Teaching, Economics / General

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorJeremy Brecher

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight24.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-946093

Preface byNelson, Sara

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Jeremy Brecher's Strike! is a classic of American historical writing. This new edition, bringing his account up to the present, comes amid rampant inequality and growing popular resistance. No book could be more timely for those seeking the roots of our current condition." --Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize winner and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University "Magnificent--a vivid, muscular labor history, just updated and rereleased by PM Press, which should be at the side of anyone who wants to understand the deep structure of force and counterforce in America." --JoAnn Wypijewski, author of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence "An exciting history of American labor. Brings to life the flashpoints of labor history. Scholarly, genuinely stirring." --New York Times "Splendid... clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of American general strikes." --Washington Post "A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place as the standard history of American labor." --Staughton Lynd, author of Solidarity Unionism and coauthor of Labor Law for the Rank and Filer

Dewey Decimal331.892973

SynopsisJeremy Brecher's Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. Encompassing the repeated repression of workers' rebellions by company-sponsored violence, local police, state militias, and the U.S. Army and National Guard, it reveals a dimension of American history rarely found in the usual high school or college history course. Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Strike! to bring U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Now this fiftieth anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters covering the "mini-revolts of the twenty-first century," including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials and concludes by examining a wide range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter, to the great wave of teachers' strikes "for the soul of public education," to the global "Student Strike for Climate" that may be harbingers of mass strikes to come., Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. This fiftieth anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters covering the "mini-revolts of the 21st century," including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen, and concludes by examining a wide range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter to the global "Student Strike for Climate" that may be harbingers of mass strikes to come.

LC Classification NumberHD5324.B74 2020