Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. INTRODUCTION Who Rules? 1
5. Part 1 HOW DID WE GET HERE?
6. 1 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING A Powerful but Neglected Tool 9
7. 2 WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY DOES NOT HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT A Story of US Labor Movements 20
8. 3 THE GREAT ROLLBACK Capital Fights Back 36
9. Part 2 THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
10. PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR Erica Smiley: In Exactly the Right Place 45
11. 4 WORTH FIGHTING FOR Collective Bargaining in the Workplace 53
12. 5 BEYOND WORKERS Organizing Whole People 61
13. 6 ORGANIZING ALL PEOPLE We Will Not Win without Destroying White Supremacy and Patriarchy 75
14. 7 BEYOND THE RED AND THE BLUE A New Map for Twenty-First- Century Organizers 99
15. Part 3 THE WAY WE WIN
16. PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR Sarita Gupta: Making Meaning of the World 119
17. 8 BARGAINING WITH THE REAL DECISION-MAKERS The Ultimate Profiteers of Global Capitalism 127
18. 9 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN BARGAINING Negotiating beyond the Workplace 153
19. 10 BUILDING LONG-TERM LABOR-COMMUNITY POWER Bargaining for the Common Good 178
20. 11 WHO BENEFITS? Technology, Work, and a Future Not Yet Written 188
21. CONCLUSION What It Takes 207
22. Acknowledgments 211
23. ABBREVIATIONS 217
24. NOTES 219
25. Bibliography 235
26. Index 247