Singlejack Solidarity

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
I. Working-Class Cultures......Page 16
Meetings with James Baldwin......Page 18
What Ever Happened to Frisco Jeans?......Page 32
C. L. R. James: Revolutionary Artist......Page 36
The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures......Page 41
Work Force Writers on the Rise......Page 44
I Am Lonely......Page 47
II. The Human Costs of Automation......Page 52
New Technology: A Catalyst for Crises in Collective Bargaining, Industrial Discipline, and Labor Law......Page 54
The Human Cost of Automation......Page 83
Containerization Makes for a Lonely Waterfront......Page 88
Luddism Today......Page 91
Effects of Automation in the Lives of Longshoremen......Page 106
III. Solidarity Networks......Page 122
Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job......Page 124
The Need for Labor Networking......Page 168
Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions......Page 170
Introduction to Coordinadora......Page 172
Strike in Spain Reveals Sickness and Cure......Page 175
Longshoremen and Marine Clerks of Spain Building New Kind of Union......Page 179
IV. Workers, Politics, and Social Change......Page 184
Eric Hoffer: Far-Right True Believer......Page 186
The Artificial Isolation between Radicals and Workers......Page 204
Workers: Second-Class Citizens......Page 206
Bill Akagi and the Union......Page 209
The First Recorded Strike in History: 1170 BC......Page 211
Early U.S. Labor Policy Revealed by Archives Find......Page 213
V. The Vanguard Party and Worker Self-Activity......Page 216
A Leninist Vanguard Party Dying in a Foreign Land......Page 218
Life in a Vanguard Party......Page 227
After the War......Page 233
The Vanguard Party: An Institution Whose Time Has Expired......Page 235
Contribution to a Discussion on Bert Cochran's Labor and Communism......Page 240
The Vanguard Party: An Obstruction to Worker–Intellectual Alliances......Page 246
VI. Primary Work Groups......Page 252
The Informal Work Group......Page 254
Just a Matter of Gloves......Page 271
West Coast Longshoremen and Informal Workers' Control......Page 275
Review of Punishment and Redress in a Modern Factory......Page 298
VII. The Failure of Business Unionism, the Rank and File Alternative......Page 302
American Labor on the Defensive: A 1940s Odyssey......Page 304
USA: The Labor Revolt......Page 317
Doug Fraser's Middle-Class Coalition......Page 333
The Failure of Business Unionism......Page 347
The Australian Dock Strike......Page 361
Stan Weir: Working-Class Visionary......Page 369
Notes......Page 380
Publication History......Page 390
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