商品簡介
From 1992 to 1995, workers at the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company in Decatur, Illinois engaged in one of the more pitched labor struggles of recent American history, eventually losing but not before building an impressive worker and community mobilization and a remarkable national solidarity movement. Ashby (School of Labor and Employment Relations, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Hawking (a United Methodist pastor and executive director of the faith-based workers' rights group Arise Chicago), who both worked as Staley workers' solidarity organizers, here offer an account of these struggles that tells the story through interviews with involved workers and their families. They have also constructed the work as an introduction to unionism, interspersing the narrative with explanations of common union terms and concepts. Another goal for the work is to highlight the lessons from the Staley workers' struggles for current trade union battles and to critique contemporary weaknesses in the US labor movement. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Steven K. Ashby is an associate clinical professor in the Chicago Labor Education Program in the School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. C. J. Hawking is a United Methodist pastor and the executive director of the faith-based workers' rights group Chicago Arise.
