Class struggle unionism /
An essential primer for rebuilding a militant labor movement centered on solidarity with all workers.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, IL :
Haymarket Books,
2022.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2919049 |
| Summary: | An essential primer for rebuilding a militant labor movement centered on solidarity with all workers. Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democratic and fighting labor movement. Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society. Class struggle unionism looks at the employment transaction as inherently exploitative. While workers create all wealth in society, the outcome of the wage employment transaction is to separate workers from that wealth and create the billionaire class. From that simple proposition flows a radical form of unionism. Historically, class struggle unionists placed their workplace fights squarely within this larger fight between workers and the owning class. Viewing unionism in this way produces a particular type of unionism which both fights for broader class issues but is also rooted in workplace-based militancy. --From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781642596816 1642596817 9781642596588 1642596582 9781642595840 1642595845 |