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The Death and Life of American Labor – with Author Stanley Aronowitz

Tue, April 14, 2015 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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The Death and Life of American Labor with author Stanley Aronowitz

$15.00

Tues., April 14 7:30 to 9:30pm

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Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. He explains how this death has been a long time coming—the organizing and political principles adopted by U.S. unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll.

In the ’50s and ’60s, Stanley Aronwitz 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 False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness was a landmark in the study of the U.S. working-class and workers’ movements.

Aronowitz 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. When, 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.

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