Steve Early: Embedded with Labor - video
Submitted by seachange on Tue, 2009-06-23 06:26.
GRITtv, June 19, 2009 Steve Early is a self-proclaimed participatory labor journalist. He started out in the 1970s with a union of retail clerks and has been writing about the labor movement ever since. Despite the decrease in union membership and the never-ending obstacles to workplace organizing, Steve says there is a lot to be hopeful about. He sits down with GRITtv to help us see the rays of light and talk about his new book, Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home. ... Steve
Meet the Author
Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home
A new book by Steve Early, former CWA organizer, labor journalist, lawyer and frequent contributor to The Boston Globe
Speaking at:
Porter Square Books (at Porter Square Shopping Center across from Red Line T-stop)
25 White Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (617-491-2220)
Monday, June 29 - 7:00 to 8:30 PM
With after-party at Christopher's Restaurant across the street ...
Find Out More About:
· Workers and the economic crisis
· The fight for health care reform
· The fate of "Employee Free Choice"
· Current struggles for union democracy and rank-and-file control
· The future of national labor federations like Change to Win and AFL-CIO
Sponsored by: Monthly Review Press, Labor Notes, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, CWA Locals 1400 and 1298, IBEW Locals 2222 and 2321, Boston Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA, IUE-CWA Local 201, Boston DSA, Boston Radical Education Project, Solidarity, Socialist Alternative and Dollars & Sense Magazine
Refreshments will be served. For more information, call: 617-930-7327
To order the book online, visit: www.monthlyreview.org