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The Founding Fathers believed in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Turns out they were talking about the wealthy slave owners and sea merchants, not the hard-working citizens, slaves or indentured servants.
If we want to organize and build union power, we must change the fundamental relationships in our society between labor and capital. That means fighting the propertied class for a redistribution of wealth and power. To win that fight, we need to understand how and why the laws that are hard-wired into the Constitution and into subsequent labor laws were crafted to suppress union organizing.
We need to know our own history.
“An unflinching picture of workers fighting against overwhelming odds for justice in the workplace. As Peter Kellman tells it in these pages, workers even have to fight to keep the knowledge of their own struggles alive. This book is a milestone in preserving and sharing that knowledge” Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
The Founding Fathers believed in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Turns out they were talking about the wealthy slave owners and sea merchants, not the hard-working citizens, slaves or indentured servants.
If we want to organize and build union power, we must change the fundamental relationships in our society between labor and capital. That means fighting the propertied class for a redistribution of wealth and power. To win that fight, we need to understand how and why the laws that are hard-wired into the Constitution and into subsequent labor laws were crafted to suppress union organizing.
We need to know our own history.
“An unflinching picture of workers fighting against overwhelming odds for justice in the workplace. As Peter Kellman tells it in these pages, workers even have to fight to keep the knowledge of their own struggles alive. This book is a milestone in preserving and sharing that knowledge” Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States