Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law - Softcover

Lynd, Staughton; Gross, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604864192 ISBN 13: 9781604864199

Publisher: PM Press, 2011

Synopsis

Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical guide to workers’ rights aims to make work better while reinvigorating the labor movement. A powerful organization model called “solidarity unionism” is explained, showing how the labor force can avoid the pitfalls of the legal system and utilize direct action to win fair rights. The new edition includes new cases governing fundamental labor rights and can be used not only by union workers, but can serve as a guerrilla legal handbook for any employee in this unstable economy.

About this title

About the Author:

Staughton Lynd taught American history at Spelman College and Yale University. He was director of Freedom Schools in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. He has written or coedited more than a dozen books, including Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution; From Here to There; Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism; and Wobblies and Zapatistas. He lives in Youngstown, Ohio. Daniel Gross is an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World and a cofounder of the first union in the United States at the Starbucks Coffee Co. He is also the founding director of Brandworkers International, a nonprofit organization protecting and advancing the rights of retail and food employees. He lives in New York City.

Review:

"Some things are too important to leave to so called “experts”: our livelihoods, our dignity and our rights. In this book, Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross have provided us with a very necessary, empowering, and accessible tool for protecting our own rights as workers." --Nicole Schulman, co-editor Wobblies! A Graphic History and World War 3 Illustrated.

"As valuable to working persons as any hammer, drill, stapler, or copy machine, Labor Law for the Rank and Filer is a damn fine tool empowering workers who struggle to realize their basic dignity in the workplace while living through an era of unchecked corporate greed. Smart, tough, and optimistic, Staughton Lynd and Daniel Gross provide nuts and bolts information to realize on-the-job rights while showing us that another world is not only possible but inevitable." --John Philo, Legal Director, Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice

"Workers' rights are under attack on every front. Bosses break the law every day. For 30 years Labor Law for the Rank and Filer has been arming workers with an introduction to their legal rights (and the limited means to enforce them) while reminding everyone that real power comes from workers' solidarity." --Alexis Buss, former General Secretary-Treasurer of the IWW

About this edition

• Publisher: PM Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1604864192
• ISBN 13: 9781604864199
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 120