Labor Power and Strategy
Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack (Jr.) is a 2023 publication from PM Press, featuring 190 pages in English. This book addresses critical questions about organizing labor and challenging powerful entities like Amazon and media monopolies. Womack, a renowned strategist and labor organizer, offers insights aimed at a new generation, focusing on effective campaign strategies within the working class.
Readers will find a practical guide that emphasizes identifying strategic chokepoints and leveraging supply chain dynamics to enhance labor power and solidarity. The book includes contributions from ten young labor organizers and educators, fostering a dialogue that encourages actionable change. With its blend of experience-based perspectives and inspiring narratives, this edition serves as a resource for those interested in labor, economics, and political advocacy.
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What would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organize those without hope working on the margins? In Labor Power and Strategy, legendary strategist, historian, and labor organizer John Womack, speaks directly to a new generation, providing rational, radical, experience-based perspectives that help target and run smart, strategic, effective campaigns in the working class.
In this sleek, practical, pocket inspiration, Womack lays out a timely plan for identifying chokepoints and taking advantage of supply chain issues in order to seize and build labor power and solidarity. Interviewed by Peter Olney of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union–Womack’s lively, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten young labor organizers and educators, whose responses create a rich dialogue and open a space for joyful, achievable change. With stories of triumph that will bring readers to tears this back-pocket primer is an instant classic.
With contributions from Gene Bruskin, Carey Dall, Dan DiMaggio, Katy Fox-Hodess, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jane McAlevey, Jack Metzgar, Joel Ochoa, Melissa Shetler, and Rand Wilson.
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