Ah when events catch up to you ...

[nadinbrzezinski]

well as some of you know I started writing a book on the history of labor. It is going to be mostly a survey...

So here I am editing the intro... and talking about how we have been conditioned to believe that resistance is futile (that is the gist of it)... and here I am going... but, but, but... resistance is what is stoping the craziness in WI, and IND and a few other places. We are finally seeing that. It will take some rethinking on how to incorporate these events, which ARE historic, into the work. Regardless the last chapter will have to go into well VERY CURRENT events, which moves against the vein of historic research... so keep them primary sources (that is your first hand reports) coming.)

As is, there are a few article already in what we have seen already in WI... this is equivalent to the struggles of the early part of last century imho... and this has woken labor up. Methinks the splitting of the SEIU and the AFL-CIO in 1999 will soon be over... but too early to tell... perhaps people will finally realize why the American Federation of labor was WRONG about leaving, mostly, the field of politics. Yes the AFL-CIO has been more active, but far from enough and the SEIU cannot do it alone.

Oh well, back to scratching head.

[JeffersonChick]

1. Labor history is so important!

I'm a former union organizer, and a passionate one. The most difficult part of my job was the apathy (if not downright disdain) that my coworkers and I experienced on the part of the state workers we were trying to organize. Believe it or not, not only had most of the employees never even heard of the union, but quite a few didn't even know what a union is!

Have you read "Labor's Untold Story"? BEST book I've ever read about unions. Absolutely mind-blowing.

Good luck, and I'd love to hear about your progress!

:yourock:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. No, but just placed the order with Amazon

I have been relying on rayback and a few others.

Right now on my way to cover the Independence period, including the earliest strikes with the Printers of Philadelphia.