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Subterranean Fire: A History Of Working-Class Radicalism In The United States

Sharon Smith
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9781931859233
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date: 2006-05-09
ITEM OVERVIEW
This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the hidden history of workers' resistance from the nineteenth to the present, from an unabashedly Marxist perspective. Workers in the United states have a rich tradition of fighting back and achieving gains previously thought unthinkable, but that history remains largely hidden. Subterranean Fire brings that history to light and reveals its lessons for today.
"A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up." [Mike Davis]