Solidarity Divided

Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, is a columnist and long-time activist. He served as President of TransAfrica Forum and was formerly the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. He is the author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Relations, 1934-1941. Fernando Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President, Labor Educator, author, and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Preface: Revelations in South Africa Introduction: Change to Win and the Split in the AFL-CIO PART I. CHALLENGES FACING THE U.S. LABOR MOVEMENT 1. Dukin' It Out: Building the Labor Movement 2. The New Deal 3. The Cold War on Labor 4. The Civil Rights Movements, the Left, and Labor PART II. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED 5. Whose Welfare Matters, Anyway? 6. What's Left for Us? 7. Organizing to Organize the Unorganized PART III. SWEENEY'S GRAND GESTURE 8. The New Voice Coalition Takes Office 9. Developing Strategy in Times of Change 10. Globalization: The Biggest Strategic Challenge 11. Could'a, Would'a, Should'a: Central Labor Councils and Missed Opportunities 12. International Affairs, Globalization, and 9/11 PART IV. WHEN SILENCE ISN'T GOLDEN 13. Restlessness in the Ranks 14. Change to Win: A Return to Gompers? 15. Anger, Compromise, and the Paralysis of the Sweeney Coalition 16. Left Behind PART V. THE WAY FORWARD: SOCIAL JUSTICE UNIONISM 17. The Need for Social Justice Unionism 18. The Need for a Global Outlook 19. Realizing Social Justice Unionism: Strategies for Transformation Appendix A. A Process for Addressing the Future of U.S. Organized Labor Appendix B. Using Race, Class, and Gender Analysis to Transform Local Unions: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Authors

"You must read Solidarity Divided." -- David A. Love Black Commentator "The book is necessary reading for all students of US labor history and the Left." -- Immanuel Ness Socialism And Democracy