Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, 1975-2009: Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work, cartea 7
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004748637
ISBN-10: 9004748636
Pagini: 492
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work
ISBN-10: 9004748636
Pagini: 492
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work
Notă biografică
Marc Kagan is a former transit worker, a life-long union and shopfloor activist, and sometime union officer. He has taught American, NYC, and Labor History, and is co-author of Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose (Oxford, 2022).
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1 The Fall of the House of Labor, and the New Directions Project
1 Transformational Efforts and Union Dilemmas
2 Three Theories on the Decline of American Trade Unions – and Their Implications
3 Challenging and Changing the Structure and Culture of American Unions
4 The “Long” History of TWU Local 100 and the New Directions Project in the Neoliberal Era
5 An Outline of the Book
2 Local 100, the Transit Industry, and New York City’s Fiscal Crisis
1 Life as a Transit Worker
2 The First Decades of Transport Workers Union Local 100
3 Union Reorganization(s)
4 Distinctions across Transit and Local 100
5 Local 100 in the Long 1960s
6 The Taylor Law, New York City’s Fiscal Crisis, and Austerity
7 Conclusion: Priming the Fall
3 A Bottle-Rocket that Led to Only a Wage Increase
1 1978 Contract Ratification
2 The 1979 Election
3 The 1980 Strike: Victory or Defeat?
4 Controlling the Narrative of the Strike; and After
5 Conclusion: the Dilemmas of Oppositionist Organizations
4 The Fall of TWU Local 100
1 The Fight at 207th St.
2 Management’s Agenda, Union Complicity, 1982–1999
3 Conclusion: Neither the Army Nor the Town Hall
5 Divisional Efforts at “Shop-Floor” Struggle
1 Sort-of Top-Down Militancy in Structure
2 Mass Action in Car Equipment
3 Sort-of Bottom-Up in Track
4 RTO Spawns New Directions
5 Conclusion: Four Different Countriesv
6 The Rise of New Directions
1 The Early Years of HoW-ND
2 Toward Electoralism, 1989–1995
3 Staving Off New Directions
4 Democracy in New Directions; New Blood and New Questions, 1996–1998
5 Success? 1998–2000
6 Conclusion: the Blemishes on the Golden Apple
7 The Trials and Tasks of Running a Union, 2001–02
1 Not a “Productive Bargaining Relationship”
2 The Successes and Limits of Fighting Back within the Web of Rules
3 A Case Study in Bargaining: Local 100’s Health Benefit Crisis
4 Union and Worker Action
5 Problems of Union and Workplace Democracy in Theory and Local 100 Practice
6 The Officers Replicate the Stewards
7 Management at the Union Hall
8 The Break-Up of New Directions
9 Conclusion: Big Gains and Squandered Opportunities
8 Negotiating a Contract
1 Goals and Priorities
2 Organizational Preparations for Negotiations
3 Lots of Expectations: Bargaining Begins
4 Outside Pressures
5 Down from the Pinnacle: the 2002 Contract
6 Final Contract and Fallout: Why No Strike?
7 Ratification and Objections
8 Conclusion: a Better Bargain?
9 The Union on the Defensive
1 Contract Implementation Bogs Down
2 Accountability, the 2003 Elections, and the Final Demise of the New Directions Left
3 Union Building …
4 … And Union Unbuilding
5 Fighting Transit?
6 Conclusion: a House Divided
10 The 2005 New York City Transit Strike
1 Contract Preparations and Messaging
2 Final Pre-Strike Negotiations and Agreements
3 A Deadline Is a Deadline?
4 The Strike
5 The Rejection of the Contract
6 I Hate the Members; and Contract Arbitration, after All
7 Conclusion: an Odd Strike, an Odder Ending
11 The End, and “Back to Normalcy”
1 The 2006 Elections and New Rounds of Internal Warfare
2 Amending the Taylor Law, and Other Political Efforts
3 Cooperation with Transit
4 Bad Decisions: the Union Bleeds Money, and Members
5 By-Laws Changes
6 A Very Bizarre Contract Round
7 2009 Election
8 Conclusion: Back to Normalcy
12 The Dilemmas of Union Revitalization
1 Dilemma: Fight the Boss, or Fight the Union to Fight the Boss
2 Dilemma: Educational Campaigns or First Win
3 Dilemma: Leadership, or Participatory Democracy, in the New Directions Caucus
4 Dilemma: the Army or the Democratic Town Meeting at the Union Hall
5 Dilemma: the Union Caucus after Victory
6 Dilemma: Things, or Industrial Democracy
7 Dilemma: Urgent, or Important? 4348 Dilemma: Risk, or Is Another World Possible?
Appendix A: The Problems and Possibilities of Writing Contemporary and Presentist History
Appendix B: Marxist-Leninist Party Leaflets
Appendix C: Transition Issues for Local 100 (December 2000)
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
PART 1: Introduction
1 The Fall of the House of Labor, and the New Directions Project
1 Transformational Efforts and Union Dilemmas
2 Three Theories on the Decline of American Trade Unions – and Their Implications
3 Challenging and Changing the Structure and Culture of American Unions
4 The “Long” History of TWU Local 100 and the New Directions Project in the Neoliberal Era
5 An Outline of the Book
2 Local 100, the Transit Industry, and New York City’s Fiscal Crisis
1 Life as a Transit Worker
2 The First Decades of Transport Workers Union Local 100
3 Union Reorganization(s)
4 Distinctions across Transit and Local 100
5 Local 100 in the Long 1960s
6 The Taylor Law, New York City’s Fiscal Crisis, and Austerity
7 Conclusion: Priming the Fall
PART 2: Fall
3 A Bottle-Rocket that Led to Only a Wage Increase
1 1978 Contract Ratification
2 The 1979 Election
3 The 1980 Strike: Victory or Defeat?
4 Controlling the Narrative of the Strike; and After
5 Conclusion: the Dilemmas of Oppositionist Organizations
4 The Fall of TWU Local 100
1 The Fight at 207th St.
2 Management’s Agenda, Union Complicity, 1982–1999
3 Conclusion: Neither the Army Nor the Town Hall
PART 3: Rise
5 Divisional Efforts at “Shop-Floor” Struggle
1 Sort-of Top-Down Militancy in Structure
2 Mass Action in Car Equipment
3 Sort-of Bottom-Up in Track
4 RTO Spawns New Directions
5 Conclusion: Four Different Countriesv
6 The Rise of New Directions
1 The Early Years of HoW-ND
2 Toward Electoralism, 1989–1995
3 Staving Off New Directions
4 Democracy in New Directions; New Blood and New Questions, 1996–1998
5 Success? 1998–2000
6 Conclusion: the Blemishes on the Golden Apple
7 The Trials and Tasks of Running a Union, 2001–02
1 Not a “Productive Bargaining Relationship”
2 The Successes and Limits of Fighting Back within the Web of Rules
3 A Case Study in Bargaining: Local 100’s Health Benefit Crisis
4 Union and Worker Action
5 Problems of Union and Workplace Democracy in Theory and Local 100 Practice
6 The Officers Replicate the Stewards
7 Management at the Union Hall
8 The Break-Up of New Directions
9 Conclusion: Big Gains and Squandered Opportunities
8 Negotiating a Contract
1 Goals and Priorities
2 Organizational Preparations for Negotiations
3 Lots of Expectations: Bargaining Begins
4 Outside Pressures
5 Down from the Pinnacle: the 2002 Contract
6 Final Contract and Fallout: Why No Strike?
7 Ratification and Objections
8 Conclusion: a Better Bargain?
PART 4: Fall
9 The Union on the Defensive
1 Contract Implementation Bogs Down
2 Accountability, the 2003 Elections, and the Final Demise of the New Directions Left
3 Union Building …
4 … And Union Unbuilding
5 Fighting Transit?
6 Conclusion: a House Divided
10 The 2005 New York City Transit Strike
1 Contract Preparations and Messaging
2 Final Pre-Strike Negotiations and Agreements
3 A Deadline Is a Deadline?
4 The Strike
5 The Rejection of the Contract
6 I Hate the Members; and Contract Arbitration, after All
7 Conclusion: an Odd Strike, an Odder Ending
11 The End, and “Back to Normalcy”
1 The 2006 Elections and New Rounds of Internal Warfare
2 Amending the Taylor Law, and Other Political Efforts
3 Cooperation with Transit
4 Bad Decisions: the Union Bleeds Money, and Members
5 By-Laws Changes
6 A Very Bizarre Contract Round
7 2009 Election
8 Conclusion: Back to Normalcy
12 The Dilemmas of Union Revitalization
1 Dilemma: Fight the Boss, or Fight the Union to Fight the Boss
2 Dilemma: Educational Campaigns or First Win
3 Dilemma: Leadership, or Participatory Democracy, in the New Directions Caucus
4 Dilemma: the Army or the Democratic Town Meeting at the Union Hall
5 Dilemma: the Union Caucus after Victory
6 Dilemma: Things, or Industrial Democracy
7 Dilemma: Urgent, or Important? 4348 Dilemma: Risk, or Is Another World Possible?
Appendix A: The Problems and Possibilities of Writing Contemporary and Presentist History
Appendix B: Marxist-Leninist Party Leaflets
Appendix C: Transition Issues for Local 100 (December 2000)
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"This book is essential for union reformers, especially the rising generation of rank-and-file troublemakers. Kagan highlights the real challenges in bringing democratic unionism to the labor movement against entrenched norms of top-down decision making. To bring back the labor movement, do we need more competent leftists in power? Or do we need to fundamentally change what it means to have power? Every elected union reformer should read this book."
- Meghan Peterson, president, AFSCME DC37 Local 3005
Union activist turned historian Marc Kagan provides an inside view of the long struggle by New York transit workers to revitalize their union, and of what happened when they succeeded in ousting the old regime. Few labor histories bring readers so intimately into the workplace and the union hall as this gripping story of triumph and limitation.
- Joshua Freeman, author of Working-Class New York (The New Press, 2001)
Drawing on extensive research as well as first-hand experience this engaging book offers rich and unique insights into the history of one of New York City’s most important labor unions.- Ruth Milkman, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
"Take Back the Power is a thorough, 452-page case study in class struggle and transformational union politics. Kagan chronicles the decades-long fight by New York transit workers and their union to win respect, economic justice, and power on the job[...]This book should be read and studied. It’s certainly a tale worth telling."
- Bill Breihan, in: Against the Current
- Meghan Peterson, president, AFSCME DC37 Local 3005
Union activist turned historian Marc Kagan provides an inside view of the long struggle by New York transit workers to revitalize their union, and of what happened when they succeeded in ousting the old regime. Few labor histories bring readers so intimately into the workplace and the union hall as this gripping story of triumph and limitation.
- Joshua Freeman, author of Working-Class New York (The New Press, 2001)
Drawing on extensive research as well as first-hand experience this engaging book offers rich and unique insights into the history of one of New York City’s most important labor unions.- Ruth Milkman, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
"Take Back the Power is a thorough, 452-page case study in class struggle and transformational union politics. Kagan chronicles the decades-long fight by New York transit workers and their union to win respect, economic justice, and power on the job[...]This book should be read and studied. It’s certainly a tale worth telling."
- Bill Breihan, in: Against the Current