Staley : The Fight for a New American Labor Movement
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Working Class in American History
ISBN-10
0252076400
ISBN-13
9780252076404
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 13th, 2009
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
602 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.60 x 2.90 cms
Ksh 4,500.00
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A dramatic story of worker resistance in a pivotal labor struggle
This on-the-ground labor history chronicles the bitterly contested labor conflict in the mid 1990s at the A. E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where workers waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. When the company launched a full-scale assault on its workers, Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and African American communities, building a nationwide solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. Through scores of interviews and videotapes of every union meeting, the authors bring the workers'' voices to the fore and reveal their innovative tactics that inform and strengthen today''s labor movement.
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