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Book SynopsisLabor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a workingclass movement.
While President Trump''s election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response.
Essays in the volume examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes.
Contributors: Donald Cohen, founder and executive director of In the Public Interest; Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of Solidarity Divided; Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Sarah Jaffe, co-host of Dissent Magazine''s Belabored podcast; Cedric Johnson, University of Illi
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"This volume offers a timely, needed, and original set of interpretations of the political moment in which we live. The emphasis here is not on theoretical debates but rather on practical political analysis and the construction of alternatives." -- Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Koch Network's Long Game and Its Implications for Progressive Organizing, by Nancy MacLean
2. Right-Wing Populism, the Corporate Attack on Working Americans, and the Labor Movement's Response, by Gordon Lafer
3. Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of Organized Labor, by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Jose Alejandro La Luz
4. Walker's Wisconsin and the Future of the United States, by Jon Shelton
5. Whose Class Is It Anyway? The "White Working Class" and the Myth of Trump, by Sarah Jaffe
6. Privatization: Chipping Away at Government, by Donald Cohen
7. Building a Pro-Worker, Pro-Union Climate Movement, by Lara Skinner
8. From Co-optation to Radical Resistance: An Examination of Organized Labor's Response(s) to Immigrant Rights in the Era of Trump, by Shannon Gleeson
9. Trumpism, Policing, and the Problem of Surplus Population, by Cedric Johnson
10. Going South: How Southern Organizing Will Determine the Future of the Labor Movement, by MaryBe McMillan
11. Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia, by Jennifer Klein
12. Fighting and Defeating the Charter School Agenda, by Kyla Walters
