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Lessons Of The Civil Rights Movement For A Workers Rights Movement, Aldon Morris, Dan Clawson
Lessons Of The Civil Rights Movement For A Workers Rights Movement, Aldon Morris, Dan Clawson
Dan Clawson
In 1955, African Americans in the South faced seemingly impossible conditions, but a decade later, a mass movement had won impressive victories. If workers and unions hope to achieve fundamental changes, not just incremental advances, they should learn from the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement indicates that workers’ rights can be won only if workers launch a mass movement, take risks, engage in direct action, demonstrate an ability to disrupt the normal functioning of society, and maintain that disruption until concessions are won. Political change, legal victories, cultural shifts, and media coverage followed from, and depended on, the …
Lessons Of The Civil Rights Movement For Building A Worker Rights Movement, Aldon Morris, Dan Clawson
Lessons Of The Civil Rights Movement For Building A Worker Rights Movement, Aldon Morris, Dan Clawson
Dan Clawson
In 1955, African Americans in the South faced seemingly impossible conditions, but a decade later, a mass movement had won impressive victories. If workers and unions hope to achieve fundamental changes, not just incremental advances, they should learn from the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement indicates that workers’ rights can be won only if workers launch a mass movement, take risks, engage in direct action, demonstrate an ability to disrupt the normal functioning of society, and maintain that disruption until concessions are won. Political change, legal victories, cultural shifts, and media coverage followed from, and depended on, the …
What Drives A Labor Upsurge?, Dan Clawson
What Drives A Labor Upsurge?, Dan Clawson
Dan Clawson
I wrote The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements in hopes of stimulating, and participating in, exactly the kind of discussion presented here. These essays engage issues that will be central to any attempt to revive the labor movement. The contributors are generous about my own work, and at the same time raise challenges and add analyses that address the problems labor faces today. The labor movement will advance more through sharp and vigorous debate than by papering over differences. I’d rather that my bold analysis be proven wrong and contribute to the needed debate than to offer …