{"product_id":"the-death-and-life-of-stanley-aronowitz-9781781681381","title":"The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker's Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe decline of the American union movement--and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnion membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming--the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker.\u003cp\u003eIn the '50s and '60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book \u003ci\u003eFalse Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness \u003c\/i\u003ewas a landmark in the study of the US working-class and workers' movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian's understanding of American workers' struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor's rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers' movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley Aronowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781681384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781681381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015 pg. 1022","brand":"Stanley Aronowitz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447978111231,"sku":"9781781681381","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a8f21cf8-cb6f-4c4f-a311-800daac65998.jpg?v=1777236085","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-death-and-life-of-stanley-aronowitz-9781781681381","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}