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"The strength of this book ...encompasses a broad view of history
from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical background
of the nonelite in labor but with insights into black, immigrant,
and grassroots working-class history as well."--Choice Originally
published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
In this long-out-of-print oral history classic, Alice and Staughton
Lynd chronicle the stories of more than two dozen working-class
organizers who occupied factories, held sit-down strikes, walked
out, picketed, and found other bold and innovative ways to fight
for workers' rights.
"Rank and File" brings the militancy of these firebrand organizers
to life--whether it was in founding unions, challenging sexism and
racism, safety violations, and management intimidation, or working
for broader social changes.
"The strength of this book . . . encompasses a broad view of
history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical
background of the nonelite in labor but with insights into black,
immigrant, and grassroots working-class history as
well."--"Choice"
Originally published in 1981.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in
movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and
Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with
workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from
similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities,
the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in
Northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of
living that they later sought to carry into the larger society.
Both were educated to be teachers-Staughton as a professor of
history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children. But both
sought to address the social problems of their times through more
than their professions. After being involved in the Southern civil
rights movement and the movement against the war in Vietnam in the
1960s, both Staughton and Alice became lawyers. In the Youngstown,
Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of rank-and-file
organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for
prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under
supermaximum security conditions. Through trips to Central America
in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with the concept
of "accompaniment." To them, accompaniment means placing themselves
at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as dispensers of charity
or as guilty fugitives from the middle class, but as equals in a
joint process to which each person brings an essential kind of
expertise. Throughout, the Lynds, who became Quakers in the early
1960s, have been committed to nonviolence. Their story will
encourage young people seeking lives of public service in the cause
of creating a better world.
Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in
movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and
Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with
workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from
similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities,
the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in
Northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of
living that they later sought to carry into the larger society.
Both were educated to be teachers-Staughton as a professor of
history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children. But both
sought to address the social problems of their times through more
than their professions. After being involved in the Southern civil
rights movement and the movement against the war in Vietnam in the
1960s, both Staughton and Alice became lawyers. In the Youngstown,
Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of rank-and-file
organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for
prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under
supermaximum security conditions. Through trips to Central America
in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with the concept
of "accompaniment." To them, accompaniment means placing themselves
at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as dispensers of charity
or as guilty fugitives from the middle class, but as equals in a
joint process to which each person brings an essential kind of
expertise. Throughout, the Lynds, who became Quakers in the early
1960s, have been committed to nonviolence. Their story will
encourage young people seeking lives of public service in the cause
of creating a better world.
Much has changed for workers in the years since Staughton and Alice
Lynd's classic Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class
Organizers was first published in 1973. The New Rank and File
presents interviews with working-class organizers of the 1970s,
1980s, and 1990s who face the challenges of a new economy with the
same determination and creativity shown by those profiled in the
earlier book. Reflecting the increasing globalization of labor
practices and problems The New Rank and File contains oral
histories of workers in Guatemala, Palestine, Nicaragua, Mexico,
and Canada, as well as the United States.In their narratives,
rank-and-file workers from many different industries and workplaces
reveal the specific incidents and pervasive injustices that
triggered their activism. They discuss the frustrations they faced
in attempting to effect change through traditional means, and the
ways in which they have learned to advocate through innovation. In
an incisive introduction, the Lynds set forth their distinctive
perspective on the labor movement, with a focus on "solidarity
unionism": making decisions on the assumption that we all may be
leaders at one time or another rather than relying on static
hierarchies. Their insights, along with true stories told in the
organizers' own words, contain much to inspire a new generation of
workers and activists.Jim BrophyTony BudakAndrea CarneyChinese
Staff and Workers' AssociationCoalition of University EmployeesBill
DiPietroKay EisenhowerRich FeldmanThe Frente Autentico del
TrabajoMarshall GanzMia GiuntaMartin GlabermanMayra GuillenThe
Hebron Union of Workers and General Service PersonnelHugo
HernandezMargaret KeithElly LearyEd MannCharlie McCollesterVirginia
RomanVicky StarrGary StevensonMike StoutManuela Aju TambrizJames
TrevathanTriState Conference on SteelMauricio VallejosWorkers for
Ford in Mexico"
Much has changed for workers in the years since Staughton and Alice
Lynd's classic Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class
Organizers was first published in 1973. The New Rank and File
presents interviews with working-class organizers of the 1970s,
1980s, and 1990s who face the challenges of a new economy with the
same determination and creativity shown by those profiled in the
earlier book. Reflecting the increasing globalization of labor
practices and problems The New Rank and File contains oral
histories of workers in Guatemala, Palestine, Nicaragua, Mexico,
and Canada, as well as the United States.In their narratives,
rank-and-file workers from many different industries and workplaces
reveal the specific incidents and pervasive injustices that
triggered their activism. They discuss the frustrations they faced
in attempting to effect change through traditional means, and the
ways in which they have learned to advocate through innovation. In
an incisive introduction, the Lynds set forth their distinctive
perspective on the labor movement, with a focus on "solidarity
unionism": making decisions on the assumption that we all may be
leaders at one time or another rather than relying on static
hierarchies. Their insights, along with true stories told in the
organizers' own words, contain much to inspire a new generation of
workers and activists.Jim BrophyTony BudakAndrea CarneyChinese
Staff and Workers' AssociationCoalition of University EmployeesBill
DiPietroKay EisenhowerRich FeldmanThe Frente Autentico del
TrabajoMarshall GanzMia GiuntaMartin GlabermanMayra GuillenThe
Hebron Union of Workers and General Service PersonnelHugo
HernandezMargaret KeithElly LearyEd MannCharlie McCollesterVirginia
RomanVicky StarrGary StevensonMike StoutManuela Aju TambrizJames
TrevathanTriState Conference on SteelMauricio VallejosWorkers for
Ford in Mexico"
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