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Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
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Class Struggle Unionism (Paperback)
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For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are
many questions to answer. How to relate to the union establishment
which often does not want to fight? Whether to work in the rank and
file of unions or staff jobs? How much to prioritize broader class
demands versus shop floor struggle? How to relate to
foundation-funded worker centers and alternative union efforts? And
most critically, how can we revive militancy and union power in the
face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us? Class
struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists
within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class
and the working class which actually produces the goods and
services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the
employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers
create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment
transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the
billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a powerful
and radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle
unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger
fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in
this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights
for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based
militancy. Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor
tradition Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class
struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more
militant, democratic and fighting labor movement.
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