The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global
battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of
various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and
accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of
labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the
twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two
longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant
them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a
remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart
changes in U.S. manufacturing, examine the onslaught of
globalization, consider the influence of the environment on labor,
and provide the first broad analysis of the fallout from the 2000 and
2004 elections on the U.S. labor movement. Ultimately calling for a
wide-ranging reexamination of the ideological and structural
underpinnings of today's labor movement, this is essential reading
for understanding how the battle for social justice can be fought and
won.