For the past thirty years Alice and Staughton Lynd have done groundbreaking work in giving voice to rank and file workers.... The timing of The New Rank and File could not be better. Not only does it provide us with a number of inspiring largely unreported rand and file stories, it contributes greatly to the questions facing the labor movement.... It is must reading for anyone either working in the labor movement or looking to it as a force for social change.... The stories in The New Rank and File are testimony to the fact that rank and file solidarity unionism are happening in more places than most of us realize.
- Andy Piascik (Association for Union Democracy) In an inspiring series of pieces by rank-and-file activists and organizers from many sectors of the labor movement, the Lynds demonstrate the type of grassroots approach that the labor movement needs if we are to achieve the strength needed to win against a global, wealthy and well-armed foe.... The Lynds have done a fantastic job of pulling together workers into a book that provides innumerable examples of strategies that work, not in someone's theory about organizing, but in actual jobs. If you want to read about the IWW's ideas, then read this book.
- Joshua Freeze (Industrial Worker) Once you're done with fictional working people, read about real ones in The New Rank and File.... Readers get a look at the lives of organizers from a variety of backgrounds and traditions.
(Labor Notes) The New Rank and File... serves to amplify the voices of women and workers from outside the United States. Issues like globalization, NLRB elections, Weingarten rights, downsizing, 'just-in-time' production, and worker-management 'cooperation' get insightful treatment.
- Eric O'Neil (Impact) This book looks at labor issues from the movement's rank and file and is invaluable for academic collections in social movements, labor history, and industrial/organizational psychology.
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