Strike! - Jeremy Brecher

Special, expanded 50th anniversary edition of Jeremy Brecher's seminal book, Strike!, which narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in the US. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. Encompassing the repeated repression of workers’ rebellions by company-sponsored violence, local police, state militias, and the US Army and National Guard, it reveals a dimension of US history rarely found in the usual high school or college history course.Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Strike! to bring US labor history to a wide audience. As well as all the previous content, such as the stories of the 1877 Great Upheaval, the 1886 May Day strike and Haymarket affair, an