Strike!

From the publisher:

Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher's Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and often violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Strike! tells this exciting hidden history from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it.

Now Jeremy Brecher brings the story up to date. A new introduction places the problems faced by working people today in the context of 120 years of labor history. A new chapter reveals the little-known labor dimension of the Vietnam-era revolt. And a new concluding chapter interprets the rank-and-file labor struggles of the past 25 years-including the path-breaking 1997 Teamsters strike against UPS-in a unique "first draft" of the labor history of our era.

This updated edition of Strike! is an inspiration for all those working to revive the labor movement today. For a new generation that is once again discovering the power of organized workers and a class-based social movement, Brecher presents an important and critical perspective on the labor movement and U.S. history.

"For anyone who wants to get behind the headlines on the 'resurgence of U.S. labor,' Strike! is essential reading."
-Elaine Bernard

"Jeremy Brecher's Strike! is one of the most important books on labor history published since World War II. It is a much-needed history of recent labor struggles. But what makes it indispensable is its point of view, its spirit, which is that of rank-and-file resistance to both corporate power and trade union bureaucracy. Its emphasis on worker-community solidarity, across all boundaries, is exactly what is needed in our time."
-Howard Zinn

"Jeremy Brecher's Strike!, a labor and left-wing classic, has educated tens of thousands of readers over the decades and now comes back again-better than ever."
-Paul Buhle