Strike! (50th Anniversary Edition)

(Paperback, 50th Anniversary)

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Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. This fiftieth anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters covering the "mini-revolts of the 21st century," including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen, and concludes by examining a wide range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter to the global "Student Strike for Climate" that may be harbingers of mass strikes to come.

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"Jeremy Brecher's Strike! is a classic of American historical writing. This new edition, bringing his account up to the present, comes amid rampant inequality and growing popular resistance. No book could be more timely for those seeking the roots of our current condition."
--Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize winner and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University

"Magnificent--a vivid, muscular labor history, just updated and rereleased by PM Press, which should be at the side of anyone who wants to understand the deep structure of force and counterforce in America."
--JoAnn Wypijewski, author of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence

"An exciting history of American labor. Brings to life the flashpoints of labor history. Scholarly, genuinely stirring."
--New York Times

"Splendid... clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of American general strikes."
--Washington Post

"A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place as the standard history of American labor."
--Staughton Lynd, author of Solidarity Unionism and coauthor of Labor Law for the Rank and Filer

Author Bio

Jeremy Brecher has participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace, international labor rights, and many others. Kim Kelly is the labor columnist for Teen Vogue and an editor at the New Republic. Sara Nelson is international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO.