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Rank and file

Rank and file

Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers
HistoryPolitics & Society
Pages
320
Published
1973
Language
English

Synopsis

This book explores the history of labor unions and organizing within the working class in the United States. It delves into the struggles and triumphs of workers as they fought for better conditions and rights. The authors provide a detailed account of the evolution of trade unions and their impact on American society.

Prose complexity
7/10

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InformativeIntellectualComplex

Genres

History Politics & Society Sociology

Authors

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Alice Lynd

Alice Lynd was a draft counselor and trainer of draft counselors during the Vietnam War. In 1968, she published We Won’t Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors. She later became first a paralegal and then a lawyer. After retirement from practicing labor law in the wake of plant shutdowns, she became an advocate for prisoners sentenced to death and/or held for years in solitary confinement at Ohio’s supermaximum security prison.-Haymarket Books