We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s by Lynd, Staughton

We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252065477)

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We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s by Lynd, Staughton

We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s

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We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s by Lynd, Staughton

We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, "The Very Last Hurrah" by Eric Leif Davin

This collection of articles delves into the little-known community-based unionism of the 1930s. Worlds apart from bureaucratic business unions like the AFL-CIO, these organizations emerged from workers involved in many kinds of labor, from African American nutpickers in St. Louis to chemical and rubber workers in Akron, and from bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta.

The contributors draw on eyewitness interviews, first-person narratives, trade union documents, and other primary sources to describe experimental forms of worker activism during the period. This alternative unionism was democratic, deeply rooted in mutual aid among workers in different crafts and work sites, and politically independent. The key to it was a value system based on egalitarianism. The cry, "We are all leaders!" resonated among rank-and-file activists. Their struggle, though often overlooked by historians, has much to teach us about union organizing today.

Contributors: John Borsos, Eric Leif Davin, Elizabeth Faue, Rosemary Feurer, Janet Irons, Michael Kozura, Mark D. Naison, Peter Rachleff, and Stan Weir



Author: Staughton Lynd
ISBN-10: 0252065476
ISBN-13: 9780252065477
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.98w x 1.15d
By Staughton Lynd
By Staughton Lynd
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Staughton Lynd taught American history at Spelman College and Yale University. In 1964, he worked as director of Freedom Schools during Mississippi Freedom Summer and later became an attorney. His books include Doing History from the Bottom Up: On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below and Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism.

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