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Author Kerrissey, Jasmine

Title Labor in the Time of Trump
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Series Cornell scholarship online
Cornell scholarship online
Contents Labor in the Time of Trump; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Three Theories about the Attack on Workers; 1. The Koch Network's Long Game and Its Implications for Progressive Organizing; 2. Right-Wing Populism, the Corporate Attack on Working Americans, and the Labor Movement's Response; 3. Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of Organized Labor; Part II. How the Right Wing Advances its Agenda; 4. Walker's Wisconsin and the Future of the United States; 5. Whose Class Is It Anyway? The "White Working Class" and the Myth of Trump; 6. Privatization-Chipping Away at Government
Part III. Challenges and Coalition Opportunities7. Building a Pro-Worker, Pro-Union Climate Movement; 8. From Co-optation to Radical Resistance: An Examination of Organized Labor's Response(s) to Immigrant Rights in the Era of Trump; 9. Trumpism, Policing, and the Problem of Surplus Population; Part IV. Labor Strategies and Responses; 10. Going South: How Southern Organizing Will Determine the Future of the Labor Movement; 11. Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia; 12. Fighting and Defeating the Charter School Agenda; Acknowledgments
BiographiesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working-class movement. While President Trump's election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. The contributors show that only by analyzing the vulnerabilities in the right-wing strategy can the labor movement develop an effective response. Essays in the volume examine the conservative upsurge, explore key challenges the labor movement faces today, and draw lessons from recent activist successes
Analysis unions, corporate agenda, social movements, resistance, activism, Trump
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Working class -- United States -- History -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor movement
Labor unions -- Political activity
Working class
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Weinbaum, Eve
Hammonds, Clare
Juravich, Tom
Clawson, Dan
ISBN 9781501746628
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9781501746611
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