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. Most did not. Moving through a variety of frustrating and demeaning jobs, finding themselves involved in struggles often not of their own making, rethinking what they had taken for granted, the contributors to this book developed their ideas on the basis of what they saw and did, felt and tried.