Get on the Job and Organize is a compelling, inspirational narrative of the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts, telling the broader story of the new, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest. As one of the exciting new faces of the American Labor Movement, Jaz Brisack argues that while workers often organize when their place of work is toxic, it's equally important to organize when you love your job.

With an accessible voice and profound insight, Brisack puts everything into the context of America's long tradition of labor organizing and shows us how we too can organize our workplaces, from how to educate yourself and your colleagues, to what backlash can be expected and how to fight it, to what victory looks like even if the union doesn't necessarily win.

After decades of union decline and rising inequality, an inspiring wave of workplace organizing--from Starbucks stores to Amazon warehouses to southern auto factories--has thrust unionization into the national spotlight. By analyzing this surge and telling the stories of the courageous workers driving it forward, We Are the Union makes a case for how to overcome business as usual in both corporate America and organized labor.

Eric Blanc shows that recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by giving rank-and-filers an unprecedented degree of leadership. Through digital tools and ambitious campaigns, young worker leaders are turning the labor movement back into a movement--and they're winning. Rigorously researched and compellingly written, We Are the Union illustrates how this new grassroots approach can exponentially grow the power of working people to overcome economic exploitation, racial injustice, and authoritarianism at work and beyond.

In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all nonagricultural workers belonging to a union--and much higher percentages in the nation's key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized labor, founded Dissent magazine, which quickly became the publishing home for the most important progressive voices on American unions.

Today, at a time of both resurgent union organizing and socialist politics, the need for this rich tradition of ideas is as pressing as ever.

With over twenty-five contributions by some of the nation's most influential progressive voices, Labor's Partisans brings to life a history of labor that is of immediate relevance to our own times. Introduced and edited by leading labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti, this essential volume reveals the powerful currents and debates running through the labor movement, from the 1950s to today.

Combining stunning writing, political passion, and deep historical perspective, Labor's Partisans will be a source of ideas and inspiration for anyone concerned with a more just future for working people.

From nurses and teachers to wildland firefighters and funeral directors--an intimate, honest, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what it's like to work in America at this historic and volatile moment in time.

Author Mark Larson sits down with more than one hundred workers from across the socioeconomic spectrum as they share their experiences with work and what it has meant in their lives--the good, the bad, the mundane, and the profound. Doulas, firefighters, chefs, hairstylists, executives, actors, stay-at-home parents, and so many more talk about what they do all day and how it aligns (or doesn't) with what they want to be doing with their lives. The pandemic, the ensuing Great Resignation, and the current reckonings with racial justice are among the forces that are now upending and reshaping our longstanding relationships with work. Larson's interviews display how these forces collide in the lives of average Americans as they tell their own stories with passion, heartbreak, and, ultimately, hope.

Working in the 21st Century asks why we show up--or don't--to the jobs we've chosen, and how the upheaval of the past few years has changed how we perceive the work we do. It will be released to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Studs Terkel's 1974 classic Working.

There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many others-have learned that when they stand together, they're poised to build a better version of the tech industry. They haven't stopped there: at companies from Kickstarter to Google, workers have formed unions. And you should, too.

But what are unions? And why do they matter? Ethan Marcotte answers these questions through extensive research and by interviewing tech workers with real-world union-building experience. Ethan shares these workers' insights and stories, weaving them together to outline the process for forming a union of your very own. Because you-yes, you-deserve a tech union.

THIS BOOK EXPLORES:

• What it means to be a tech worker, and what it means to do tech work
• A brief history of worker-led activism, inside and outside the tech industry
• What unions are, why they matter, and how they function
• An overview of how to form a union in the United States
• How to use unions to build a more sustainable future for tech work and tech workers

In the digital age, Big Data offers an unparalleled lens into the intricacies of human behavior. Data sourced from job boards, social media platforms, or news websites allows researchers to answer questions that could not be answered with conventional data sources. Labor markets are no exception here: every day, millions of workers and firms interact, and big data allows us to better understand the complex dynamics arising from worker-firm interactions.

This volume showcases new, original research using Big Data to gain fresh insights into how labor markets work. The volume is compiled by Solomon Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research, and Benjamin Elsner, an expert on causal inference and the economics of migration. Topics include labor force transition dynamics, the labor demand side of involuntary part-time employment, the insights gained from wages in online job postings regarding wage growth, the role of online vacancies in labor market performance, the demand for personality traits, and an analysis of job descriptions from university job boards. All chapters use a combination of innovative data sources and machine learning methods to enhance our understanding of how labor markets work.

This volume contains an Open Access chapter.

In the digital age, Big Data offers an unparalleled lens into the intricacies of human behavior. Data sourced from job boards, social media platforms, or news websites allows researchers to answer questions that could not be answered with conventional data sources. Labor markets are no exception here: every day, millions of workers and firms interact, and big data allows us to better understand the complex dynamics arising from worker-firm interactions.

This volume showcases new, original research using Big Data to gain fresh insights into how labor markets work. The volume is compiled by Solomon Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research, and Benjamin Elsner, an expert on causal inference and the economics of migration. Topics include recent trends in the digitalization of job postings, the use of online vacancy and job applicants' data to study skill dynamics, the insights gained from linked vacancy data regarding skill demand and wages, the tracking of gender norms over time, the utilization of domain-specific word embeddings to examine the demand for skills, the latest evidence on employee agreements in the franchise sector, and the impact of vertical restraints on labor markets in franchised industries. All chapters use a combination of innovative data sources and machine learning methods to enhance our understanding of how labor markets work.

After decades of union decline and rising inequality, an inspiring wave of workplace organizing--from Starbucks stores to Amazon warehouses to southern auto factories--has thrust unionization into the national spotlight. By analyzing this surge and telling the stories of the courageous workers driving it forward, We Are the Union makes a case for how to overcome business as usual in both corporate America and organized labor.

Eric Blanc shows that recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by giving rank-and-filers an unprecedented degree of leadership. Through digital tools and ambitious campaigns, young worker leaders are turning the labor movement back into a movement--and they're winning. Rigorously researched and compellingly written, We Are the Union illustrates how this new grassroots approach can exponentially grow the power of working people to overcome economic exploitation, racial injustice, and authoritarianism at work and beyond.

Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie and job satisfaction. Ten years after telecom industry deregulation, management had isolated the largely female workforce in cubicles, imposed quotas to sell products, and installed surveillance systems that tracked every call and keystroke.

Debbie J. Goldman explores how call center employees and their union fought for good, humane jobs in the face of degraded working conditions and lowered wages. As the workforce coalesced to resist the changes, it demanded the Communications Workers of America (CWA) fight for safe and secure good-paying jobs. But trends in technology, capitalism, and corporate governance--combined with the decline of unions--narrowed the negotiating options for workers. Goldman describes how the actions of workers, management, and policymakers shaped the social impact of the new digital technologies and gave new form to the telecommunications industry in a time of momentous change.

Perceptive and nuanced, Disconnected tells an overlooked story of service workers in a time of change.

Martin Jay Levitt was a union buster who planned and executed customized anti-union campaigns at more then 250 businesses across America, from coal mines and factories to airlines and nursing homes. Levitt reached the pinnacle of his profession by demolishing friendships, shattering families, and turning worker against worker; he routinely spied on the police records, personnel files, credit histories, medical records, and family lives of union activists in efforts to discredit them.

After a twenty year career that destroyed the lives of potentially ten of thousands of people, Levitt decided to clear his conscience and expose the dirty tricks of the trade. The result was Confessions of a Union Buster, in which he lays out in agonizing detail the disgusting tactics he he employed anytime workers sought to improve their lives by organizing a union. He also spoke to auditoriums full of union workers, often beginning his speeches with the words, I come from a very dirty business...

Now, 28 years after the publication of Confessions, this New Activist Edition couldn't be more relevant as the gap between the worker and executive classes has only gotten wider, reaching epidemic proportions.

A new Foreword by legendary organizer Bob Muehlenkamp, a man who fought his share of campaigns against Marty Levitt and later encouraged Levitt to write this book, outlines in shocking detail why Confessions of a Union Buster: New Activist Edition couldn't come at a better time. Also new to this edition is Muehlenkamp's 17 Elements of the Union Busting System, a perfect tool for organizers that draws from Muehlenkamp's more than forty years campaigning for workers and fighting union busters.

At the most inspiring moment for American unions in our lifetimes, Who's Got the Power? takes readers on a journey through the resurgence of the American labor movement in the wake of a pandemic that changed everything. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, unions seemed to be fading into history, with representation shrinking to levels unseen in over a hundred years. But the pandemic didn't just disrupt the workplace; it reignited a movement.

Longtime organizer and labor historian Dave Kamper details how labor reemerged with newfound strength, as workers across industries, from warehouses to classrooms, began to question the status quo and demand more from their employers. Interviewing workers and labor leaders across the country, Kamper captures the stories of those on the front lines, from Frito-Lay workers in Kansas and Chicago teachers, to Amazon warehouse employees in New York and Detroit auto workers, offering a compelling account of how, in industry after industry, workers realized they held the power to reshape the terms of their employment. Strikes, protests, and bold negotiations signaled the rise of a more coordinated effort to reclaim control over working conditions, and Kamper provides a front-row seat to a new wave of labor activism that isn't just about wages and benefits--it's about dignity and solidarity.

An up-to-the-minute look at a brand-new phenomenon, Who's Got the Power? is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the seismic changes in American labor today.

Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work? reflects on how existing forms of workplace representation have changed in recent years and how new forms have developed. There is increasing interest in 'fine-tuning' representation, and in reflecting the complexity and nuances of specific groups of workers and themes at work such as equality, ecology, learning, and others. However, this study examines the extent of these developments and what they represent as innovative trade union roles. Chapters examine a wide range of highly prescient workplace issues, including:

• The changing role of the health and safety representative
• Equality representatives and new forms of trade union voice
• Learning, training and union representation
• Young and older workers in trade union revitalization
• 'Green reps' and the matter of ecological questions and politics

Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work? ends by reviewing the challenges and debates on new forms of trade union representation and raises proactive and thought provoking questions for academic researchers examining trade unions, industrial relations and the sociology of work, as well as current trade unionists and trade union representatives.

Featuring a balance of texts on the changing nature of and the history of trade union change and transformation, the series Trade Unionism gives space for in-depth, detailed analysis and captures key themes on the nature of internationalism and trade unionism.

Roy Jones is a journalist of an unusual kind, a real worker correspondent. He became an reporter

on the Morning Star after a hard apprenticeship as an itinerant industrial worker, as a militant

trade unionist working as a pipefitter on industrial sites throughout Britain where the weather

was as challenging as the bosses (and bosses' placemen) who made a guaranteed weekly wage

an uncertain prospect.

Proud of both his traditional manual skills and his newly acquired craft he was respected by

trade union leaders as much as he was trusted by workers on picket lines not least because he

brought to his reporting a sharp intelligence combined with a real insight into the daily problems

workers face.

These reminiscences arrived at Manifesto Press as a series of witty, entertaining, insightful and

politically perceptive political accounts of his unusual life and work. Some recalled in conversation

and recorded by friends and family, some culled from his decades of clippings, some

the product of discussion with his colleagues and comrades.

The finished text bears the marks of its transcription from oral and written accounts and we

are indebted to Manifesto Press volunteer Alan Tucker who carried through the first and most

rigorous edit. Alan is a former engineer, systems analyst and project manager, and technical

author and the text is the result of his discipline and energy.

Beginning in 1965 Nobel Laureate Gary Becker realized that shadow prices, which reflect the value of one's time, may be at least as important as money prices. Implications of his resulting theory of time allocation were not tested until much later when governments began to collect extensive data on how individuals utilized their time.

Time Use in Economics contains original research on new aspects of time use compiled by Daniel S. Hamermesh, a long-time path-breaking labor economist leader in analyzing time use data, and Solomon W. Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research. Topics include how time is used by type of household, how time is used in particular jobs, how time is used in high versus low growth geographic areas, how time is used after a job loss, how time use affects individual wellbeing, as well as how to interpret the blurred boundaries of time use between leisure and work, a growing issue as more individuals, especially mothers, work from home.

This book is for you if:

- You are a recent graduate considering and evaluating your best career path.

- You've been laid off and are struggling to adjust to this new job market.

- You are employed and still looking at new career options.

This book shares an AI First strategy to optimize your readiness for upcoming opportunities and involves and involves teaching you AI technique for effective job searches and enhancing your grasp of AI's industry impact.

Ben Gold spent 20 years in technology, in which the last five were dedicated to an AI-driven enterprise solution analyzing conversations. He has taken this passion for AI and built JobCo, an AI powered Career Coaching Portal (in prototype phase) designed to help jobseekers leverage AI in their journey. In addition to this book, he actively speaks to jobseeker groups and individuals on this project.

Outside of the AI world, Ben enjoys the rustic tranquility in McKinney, Texas - with his wife Maria and their children. Ben speaks 5 languages as a result of his extensive travels, living in different countries and deep appreciation for cultural diversity. Ben boasts a unique title from the 1980s: the first video game world champion, captured in a Life Magazine feature and celebrated with a win on the TV show 'That's Incredible'.

This book is for you if:

- You are a recent graduate considering and evaluating your best career path.

- You've been laid off and are struggling to adjust to this new job market.

- You are employed and still looking at new career options.

This book shares an AI First strategy to optimize your readiness for upcoming opportunities and involves and involves teaching you AI technique for effective job searches and enhancing your grasp of AI's industry impact.

Ben Gold spent 20 years in technology, in which the last five were dedicated to an AI-driven enterprise solution analyzing conversations. He has taken this passion for AI and built JobCo, an AI powered Career Coaching Portal (in prototype phase) designed to help jobseekers leverage AI in their journey. In addition to this book, he actively speaks to jobseeker groups and individuals on this project.

Outside of the AI world, Ben enjoys the rustic tranquility in McKinney, Texas - with his wife Maria and their children. Ben speaks 5 languages as a result of his extensive travels, living in different countries and deep appreciation for cultural diversity. Ben boasts a unique title from the 1980s: the first video game world champion, captured in a Life Magazine feature and celebrated with a win on the TV show 'That's Incredible'.