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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Paperback)
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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Paperback)
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In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the
AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest
labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less
than 7 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a
union, the lowest percentage since the beginning of the twentieth
century, and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt
devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. What happened? Jane
McAlevey is famous--and notorious--in the American labor movement
as the hard-charging organizer who racked up a string of victories
at a time when union leaders said winning wasn't possible. Then she
was bounced from the movement, a victim of the high-level
internecine warfare that has torn apart organized labor. In this
engrossing and funny narrative--that reflects the personality of
its charismatic, wisecracking author--McAlevey tells the story of a
number of dramatic organizing and contract victories, and the
unconventional strategies that helped achieve them. Raising
Expectations (and Raising Hell) argues that labor can be revived,
but only if the movement acknowledges its mistakes and fully
commits to deep organizing, participatory education, militancy, and
an approach to workers and their communities that more resembles
the campaigns of the 1930s--in short, social movement unionism that
involves raising workers' expectations (while raising hell).
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