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 07
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ISBN-13: 9789004748637
ISBN-10: 9004748636
Pagini: 492
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 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 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