[D66] Strike!

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Jeremy Brecher’s /Strike!/ narrates the dramatic story of repeated, 
massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in 
America. 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 U.S. 
Army and National Guard, it reveals a dimension of American 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 U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Now this 
fiftieth anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters 
covering the “mini-revolts of the twenty-first century,” including 
Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen. The new edition contains 
over a hundred pages of new materials and concludes by examining a wide 
range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter, to the great 
wave of teachers' strikes “for the soul of public education,” to the 
global “Student Strike for Climate” that may be harbingers of mass 
strikes to come.

*Praise:*

“Jeremy Brecher’s /Strike! /is a classic of American historical writing. 
This new edition, bringing his account up to the present, comes amid 
rampant inequality and growing popular resistance. No book could be more 
timely for those seeking the roots of our current condition.”
—Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize winner and DeWitt Clinton Professor of 
History at Columbia University

“Magnificent—a vivid, muscular labor history, just updated and 
rereleased by PM Press, which should be at the side of anyone who wants 
to understand the deep structure of force and counterforce in America.”
—JoAnn Wypijewski, author of /Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American 
Violence/

“An exciting history of American labor. Brings to life the flashpoints 
of labor history. Scholarly, genuinely stirring.”
—/New York Times/

“Splendid . . . clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of 
American general strikes.”
—/Washington Post/

“A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place as the standard 
history of American labor.”
—Staughton Lynd, author of /Solidarity Unionism /and coauthor of /Labor 
Law for the Rank and Filer/

*About the Contributors:*

*Jeremy Brecher* has participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, 
civil rights, peace, international labor rights, global economic 
justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many 
others. He is the author of fifteen books on labor and social movements, 
including the national best seller /Strike!/. He has received five 
regional Emmy awards for his documentary film work. He is currently 
policy and research director for the Labor Network for Sustainability.

*Sara Nelson* is international president of the Association of Flight 
Attendants–CWA, AFL-CIO. During the 2019 government shutdown, her call 
for a general strike helped showcase the power aviation employees can 
wield by withholding service and helped lead to the reopening of the 
government.

*Kim Kelly* is the labor columnist for /Teen Vogue. /Her writings on 
labor, politics, and culture have appeared in the /New York Times/, the 
/Washington Post/, the /Guardian/, /Pacific Standard/, and many others. 
She is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America, East, and has 
been active in multiple organizing and contract campaigns since 2015.

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