Labor’s Partisans
Lichtenstein, Nelson / Sonti, Samir
The top writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizing In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all non-agricultural workers belonging to a union--and much higher percentages in the nation's key industries. That same year, a group of socialists, many of them with close ties to labor, founded a small magazine called Dissent. Over the next seventy years, Di...