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I tried to go up to the house. So one of the detectives jumped up on the steps of the house with a sawed-off machine gun and he says, "The first son-of-a-bitch that sets foot on these stairs is going to have his head shot off.''

Well, you can't let that go unchallenged! So I stepped forward, and…

So the armed caravan in broken down jalopies left our town and headed towards a nearby town where scabs worked the mine. When they arrived at the mine they found the entrance to the mine guarded by southern white women and teenagers armed with shotguns and rifles.

Instead of shooting it out righ…

Again, it is often said, ''American workers do not develop radical ideas on the basis of their own experience, but only if influenced by middle-class intellectuals or foreigners." This book challenges that belief. A few of these organizers inherited their outlook on the world from their parents. Mo…

In the early 1970s, the real wages of working people in the United States began to decline. By the late 1980s, workers' movements were on the defensive. Concessionary contracts surrendered hard-won gains. Employers pushed "jointness," the "team concept," "quality circles," and other forms of labor-…