Raising Expectations, and Raising Hell: Jane McAlevey's book on rank-and-file unionism

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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 12:00am
Discussion of Jane McAlevey's union organizing hook: "Raising Expectations, and Raising Hell".
Old Moles Bill Resnick and Norm Diamond talk about union organizing by way of a mutual review of Jane McAlevey's book "Raising Expecations, and Raising Hell: my decade fighting for the labor movement". They consider the official and cynical meaning of labor day, but also the stagnation of the labor movement as it's moved away from rank-and-file organizing, direct action, and using workers' power to drive social change.
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