Embedded With Organized Labor

Collected in print for the first time, the articles that compriseEmbedded with Organized Laborpresent a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from one of the labor movement’s most esteemed journalists and participants. Steve Early tackles the most pressing issues facing workers today and documentsalthough not uncriticallyhow workers have organized and responded to capital’s offensive in recent decades. This wide-ranging collection deals with the dilemmas of union radicalism, the obstacles to institutional change within organized labor, and strategies for securing workers’ rights in the new global economy. It also addresses questions hotly debated among union activists and friends of labor, including workers’ rights as human rights, new forms of worker organization such as worker centers, union democracy, cross-border solidarity, race, gender, and ethnic divisions in the working class, and the lessons of labor history.