Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power, and How to Get It Back
- ISBN-10
- 0745315348
- ISBN-13
- 9780745315348
- Category
- History / Europe / Great Britain / General
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-09-20
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Author
- Sheila Cohen
Description
Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to offer a broad analysis of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism. Recent years have seen great changes in the trade union movement, from waves of strikes in the 1970s to a battery of employer and state onslaughts, culminating in the anti-union legislation of the 1980s and 1990s. Looking at grassroots labour struggles, Cohen explores issues of reformism, trade union democracy and the political meaning of ordinary workplace resistance, and puts forward ideas for change. Ramparts of Resistance examines the failure of the union movement to rise to the neo-liberal challenge and calls for a new politics of independent unionism and an explicitly class-based renewal of "workers' power". Coming at a time when union activity and membership involvement continues despite the odds, this book is an inspiring guide to the direction that unionism should take.
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