John Womack Jr.

Labor Power and Strategy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Olney, Peter; Perusek, Glenn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organize those without hope working on the margins? In Labor Power and Strategy, legendary strategist, historian and labor organizer John Womack, speaks directly to a new generation, providing rational, radical, experience-based perspectives that help target and run smart, strategic, effective campaigns in the working class.

In this sleek, practical, pocket inspiration, Womack lays out a timely plan for identifying chokepoints and taking advantage of supply chain issues in order to seize and build labor power and solidarity. Interviewed by Peter Olney of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union-Womack's lively, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten young labor organizers and educators, whose responses create a rich dialogue and open a space for joyful, achievable change. With stories of triumph that will bring readers to tears this back-pocket primer is an instant classic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629639895
• Artikelnr.: 64249177

Autorenporträt

John Womack Jr. is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, emeritus, at Harvard University. He served as chairman of the Department of History, 1982-85, and acting chairman, 1991-92. Born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma, he first joined a union, the International Laborers and Hod Carriers, while in high school, earning a union wage in summer construction work. He held his card until he graduated from college and went to work at The Louisville Times-then into graduate studies and later into academic work.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Mimi Thi Nguyen
Scott Branson, Introduction: Betraying Institutions
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(De)Narrativizing the Carceral State
2. Wriply Bennett, Genderless Siberia
3. Yasmin Nair, The End of Gay History
4. Jonesy and Jaime Knight, From the Figa, on the Catacombs, featuring
Gayle Rubin
5. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Things That Make Me Feel Less Lonely
6. Zaria S. El-Fil, (Mis)Mapping of Gender Towards a Queer Revolution
7. Kitty Stryker, Seeing Queerness in the Time of COVID-19  
8. Che Gossett, TBA
9. zuri arman, Feeling Unsentimental/Living Off a Cliff: COVID, Queer Black
and the Human
10. Toshio Meronek and Stasha Lampert, "Gay Shame Hates Everything":
Anarcho Trans/Queer Politics Against Neocolonial Conquest
11. Kai Rajala, Refusing Queer Settler Colonialism in Canada   
12. Darian Razdar, The Question of Planning: Transformation, Abolition, and
Queer Space
13. Adrian Shanker, When “Fitting In” Is Bad For Our Health  
14. Beth Bruch and Sandra Y. L. Korn, How to Survive without Assimilating:
Resisting Pinkwashing and Antisemitism
15. Raxtus Bracken, Adding Insult to Injury: A Case Study of the
Institutional Weaponization of White Queerness
16. aems emswiler, conditions of possibility: towards an archival praxis
informed by Black feminist anarchism and a critical trans politics
17. Amalia Golomb-Leavitt, Isabella Mancini, and Rebecca Valeriano-Flores,
Unconditional Abolition: Ending State Violence Against People with Sex
Offenses
18. James Theophilos, Ways of Seeing (Radical Queerness)
19. Yold Delius, TBA
20. Cat Kelly and Emet Ezell, How to: Queer the Grammar of the Body by
Eating Bread
21. Scott Chalupa, Into History and Out of Quarantine: A Reparative Poet‘s
Survival Kit