Description
Product ID: | 9781629639659 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Fighting Times |
Subtitle: | Organising on the Front Lines of the Class War |
Authors: | Author: Jon Melrod |
Page Count: | 352 |
Subjects: | Politics and government, Politics & government |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Deeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors. Melrod faces termination, dodges the FBI, outwits collaborators in the UAW, and becomes the central figure in a lawsuit against the labor newsletter Fighting Times, as he strives to build a class-conscious workers’ movement from the bottom up. A radical to the core, Melrod was a key part of campus insurrection at University of Wisconsin–Madison. He left campus for the factory in 1973, hired along with hundreds of youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing assembly line. Fighting Times paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires, many of whom were Black Vietnam vets. Containing dozens of archival photographs, Fighting Times captures the journey of a militant antiracist revolutionary who rose to the highest elected ranks of his UAW local without compromising his politics or his dedication to building a class-conscious workers’ movement. The book will arm and inspire a new generation of labor organizers with the skills and attitude to challenge the odds and fight the egregious abuses of the exploitative capitalist system. |
Imprint Name: | PM Press |
Publisher Name: | PM Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-11-03 |