Labor in the Time of Trump

The editors of this book are faculty members of the Labor Center and Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Combined, they have dozens of books and articles that analyze the labor movement, work, and politics. They regularly work with unions and worker centers, and they teach graduate courses in labor studies, economics, history, organizing, and union campaigns.

• Introduction1. The Koch Network's Long Game and Its Implications for Progressive Organizing, by Nancy MacLean2. Right-Wing Populism, the Corporate Attack on Working Americans, and the Labor Movement's Response, by Gordon Lafer3. Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of Organized Labor, by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Jose Alejandro La Luz4. Walker's Wisconsin and the Future of the United States, by Jon Shelton5. Whose Class Is It Anyway? The "White Working Class" and the Myth of Trump, by Sarah Jaffe6. Privatization: Chipping Away at Government, by Donald Cohen7. Building a Pro-Worker, Pro-Union Climate Movement, by Lara Skinner8. From Co-optation to Radical Resistance: An Examination of Organized Labor's Response(s) to Immigrant Rights in the Era of Trump, by Shannon Gleeson9. Trumpism, Policing, and the Problem of Surplus Population, by Cedric Johnson10. Going South: How Southern Organizing Will Determine the Future of the Labor Movement, by MaryBe McMillan11. Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia, by Jennifer Klein12. Fighting and Defeating the Charter School Agenda, by Kyla Walters

"This volume offers a timely, needed, and original set of interpretations of the political moment in which we live. The emphasis here is not on theoretical debates but rather on practical political analysis and the construction of alternatives."