ITEM OVERVIEW
Blue-collar intellectual and activist publisher, Stan Weir participated in many of the key struggles that shaped the labor movement and the political left in postwar America. For 50 years, he worked as a seaman, autoworker, teamster, housepainter, and longshoreman. Gathered here for the first time, Weir's writings analyze issues central to working-class life today ad provide humorous commentaries and portraits of people he encountered, including James Baldwin, C.L.R. James, and Eric Hoffer.
"A striking collection of very powerful essays by longtime radical organizer Stan Weir that offers an uncommonly expansive and generous Left history, rooted in the possibilities of change in everyday life." —David Roediger.
Includes a foreword by Norm Diamond and an afterword by George Lipsitz, who also edited this collection.
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