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4.36 AVERAGE
4.36 AVERAGE
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Maybe the most important book on organizing you’ll ever read.
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this POWERFUL book begs us to reconsider the union strategies that have dominated the last 50+ years, demanding that we must shift to a grassroots, worker-led, community-aligned organizing model if we are ever able to win against the rising tide of corporate greed intent on crushing the last of the unions. Replete with several poignant examples of how we CAN WIN! POWER TO THE WORKERS! Viva los sindicatos!
I’m not an organizer and I listened to this as an audiobook - with those two things in mind, I thought this was a captivating and interesting perspective to learn about unions, unionizing, and organizing. Put a name to many tactics and ideas I’ve been around but never quite recognized.
I maybe loved it so much cause it is read as an audiobook with SO much enthusiasm and drama. Made it a great listen.
I maybe loved it so much cause it is read as an audiobook with SO much enthusiasm and drama. Made it a great listen.
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Americans stop being afraid to say communism challenge!!!
5* for ideas, 2* for execution. What frustrates me is an inability to engage with socialsm and leftist history - including how the US got to where it did with unions - that leaves gaps and assumptions in the work. Definitely best to read the case study chapters and ignore the convoluted intro (which seems to start in the middle of an argument) and conclusion. And in these case studies, the most striking is the Smithfield plant victory in the deeply non-unionised Deep South whose union leader was an avowed self-proclaimed leftist... in this regard, McAlevey's obsession with ideological neutrality feels a bit half-baked! I have heard nothing but brilliant things about the woman (gone too soon) and her work as a speaker and organiser: perhaps writing was not her strong suit (there are lots of run-on sentences and strange balances of academic citations with looser interpretations), perhaps she was too close to the world to see her blindnesses amidst her passion and knowledge, and it seems this might not have been the book of hers to start with, but I think there might be clearer histories and guidebooks out there.
5* for ideas, 2* for execution. What frustrates me is an inability to engage with socialsm and leftist history - including how the US got to where it did with unions - that leaves gaps and assumptions in the work. Definitely best to read the case study chapters and ignore the convoluted intro (which seems to start in the middle of an argument) and conclusion. And in these case studies, the most striking is the Smithfield plant victory in the deeply non-unionised Deep South whose union leader was an avowed self-proclaimed leftist... in this regard, McAlevey's obsession with ideological neutrality feels a bit half-baked! I have heard nothing but brilliant things about the woman (gone too soon) and her work as a speaker and organiser: perhaps writing was not her strong suit (there are lots of run-on sentences and strange balances of academic citations with looser interpretations), perhaps she was too close to the world to see her blindnesses amidst her passion and knowledge, and it seems this might not have been the book of hers to start with, but I think there might be clearer histories and guidebooks out there.
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McAlevey provides compelling case studies of organizing across different sectors and geographies while providing some context for the evolution of the labor movement.
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informative
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