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Melrod Jon - Fighting Times Organising On The Front Lines Of The Class War - Paperback
Melrod Jon - Fighting Times Organising On The Front Lines Of The Class War - Paperback
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Description: Deeply personal astutely political Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen - year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working - class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors. Melrod faces termination dodges the FBI outwits collaborators in the UAW and becomes the central figure in a lawsuit against the labor newsletter Fighting Times as he strives to build a class - conscious workers movement from the bottom up. A radical to the core Melrod was a key part of campus insurrection at University of Wisconsin Madison. He left campus for the factory in 1973, hired along with hundreds of youthful job seekers onto the mind - numbing assembly line. Fighting Times paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires many of whom were Black Vietnam vets. Containing dozens of archival photographs Fighting Times captures the journey of a militant antiracist revolutionary who rose to the highest elected ranks of his UAW local without compromising his politics or his dedication to building a class - conscious workers movement. The book will arm and inspire a new generation of labor organizers with the skills and attitude to challenge the odds and fight the egregious abuses of the exploitative capitalist system.
Title: Fighting Times Organising On The Front Lines Of The Class War
Author(s): Melrod Jon
Publisher: Pm Press
Barcode: 9781629639659
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 9/27/2022
Category: Politics & Government
Description: Deeply personal astutely political Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen - year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working - class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors. Melrod faces termination dodges the FBI outwits collaborators in the UAW and becomes the central figure in a lawsuit against the labor newsletter Fighting Times as he strives to build a class - conscious workers movement from the bottom up. A radical to the core Melrod was a key part of campus insurrection at University of Wisconsin Madison. He left campus for the factory in 1973, hired along with hundreds of youthful job seekers onto the mind - numbing assembly line. Fighting Times paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires many of whom were Black Vietnam vets. Containing dozens of archival photographs Fighting Times captures the journey of a militant antiracist revolutionary who rose to the highest elected ranks of his UAW local without compromising his politics or his dedication to building a class - conscious workers movement. The book will arm and inspire a new generation of labor organizers with the skills and attitude to challenge the odds and fight the egregious abuses of the exploitative capitalist system.
Title: Fighting Times Organising On The Front Lines Of The Class War
Author(s): Melrod Jon
Publisher: Pm Press
Barcode: 9781629639659
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 9/27/2022
Category: Politics & Government
