From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms
in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy
For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system
have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the
United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose
effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history:
unions.
In A Collective
Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and
political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a
key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s
super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished
under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and
ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning.
Until today.
Because, as McAlevey shows, unions are making a comeback. Want to
reverse the nation’s mounting wealth gap? Put an end to sexual
harassment in the workplace? End racial disparities on the job?
Negotiate climate justice? Bring back unions.
As McAlevey travels
from Pennsylvania hospitals, where nurses are building a new kind of
patient-centered unionism, to Silicon Valley, where tech workers have
turned to old-fashioned collective action, to the battle being waged
by America’s teachers, readers have a ringside seat at the
struggles that will shape our country—and our future.