Sara Nelson, the head of the largest flight attendants’ union, leads her members through turbulent times and mounts a major…
Strike!: Revised and Expanded
The ascent of Sara Nelson, workers’ great hope
The Association of Flight Attendants president has become America’s most prominent labor leader. Now she’s poised to help the entire…
50 years of “Strike!”
By Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon; social media guru: Harold Phillips Labor History Today May 2nd, 2021 “So many people…
Strike!, Fifty Years and Counting
By Ron Jacobs CounterPunch July 10th, 2020 The first time I read Jeremy Brecher’s classic work of labor history, Strike!…
Remembering the First Clash Between UAW and GM
By Meagan DayJacobin Today’s strike at GM recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce,…
Jamelle Bouie: The Necessary Radicalism of Bernie Sanders
By Jamelle BouieThe New York TimesSeptember 12th, 2019 You may have missed it, but late last month, Bernie Sanders’ presidential…
The Green New Deal Can Work—Here’s How
18 concrete ways to make the gently needed climate mobilization a reality By Jeremy BrecherOriginally posted on Common DreamsFebruary 25,…
The Green New Deal: A Strategy for a More Equal United States
By Jeremy BrecherOriginally posted on Inequality.orgMarch 18th, 2019 A Labor Network for Sustainability activist lays out how mobilizing to protect…
Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! in Booklist
By Diego BáezBooklistAugust 14th, 2014 Brecher’s riveting primer on modern American labor history catalogs U.S. workers’ movements from the railroad…
The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
Originally posted on CounterpunchApril 28th, 2014 Forty years ago I published a study of peak periods of American labor conflict…