Unions of Our Own: 8 Building Blocks to Change Work and the World - Brossura

Gross, Daniel

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ISBN 13: 9798888905937

Casa editrice: Haymarket Books, 2026

Riassunto

Work is not meeting our needs - to say the least. And the gap between how we know our workplace should be and how they actually are is only growing.

But the path to do something about problems at work feels murky, it feels like a lot, it feels too risky.

At the same time right now being unorganized as co-workers and as a working class is devastating us outside of work too as billionaires control more and more of society.

Unions of Our Own is a radically new framework and practice for workers who need and want change at work…and in the world. It reveals the eight fundamental building blocks that it takes to create a sustainable labor union that meets your needs — as you define them. Through practical tools, clear guidance, and gripping examples from personal experience and fiery labor history, Unions of our Own is an actionable, inspiring, and confidence-boosting guide on how to use these 8 blocks to win the job you deserve.

The clarity you’ll get will take you from square one of even considering action all the way to the union you imagine. Not only can you do this, it is only you and your co-worker who have the wisdom and collective power to make your job as it should be while making justice in your industry and community.

But you can’t go in with a blank slate, that wisdom and power needs to be surfaced, tested, and refined. The union design framework of the 8 blocks enables you to do just that. Frustrated workers are on the move but too many union efforts are falling short or not getting off the ground in the first place.

Cookie cutter organizing methods and traditional models don’t cut it - not for a long while and even less so in the current moment. It takes something more: it takes you. Unorthodox, irreverent, and battle-tested, Unions of Our Own, shows the way.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Daniel Gross has been doing worker-led organizing and union-building for more than two decades, accompanying thousands of workers creating unions in their workplaces. Together with his co-workers, Gross helped found the groundbreaking IWW Starbucks Workers Union, which held power for over a decade at the coffee giant and helped revitalize a more inclusive labor movement.

Gross has practiced labor law from a rank & file perspective and served on the board of the National Lawyers Guild and the Food Chain Workers Alliance. He is also the founding director of Brandworkers, the first worker center of immigrant workers in the metro New York local food manufacturing industry.

With Staughton Lynd, he is the co-author of the classic Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law as well as the graphic pamphlet, Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks, with illustrator Tom Keough. He is based in New York City.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Haymarket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798888905937
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile