The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor

“Steve Early has long been a voice of distinctive clarity, honesty and intellectual seriousness in and about the labor movement.”—Adolph Reed, Jr., professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania From forced trusteeships to hostile inter-union raids, the labor movement has been gripped by a civil war that threatens its very existence. Steve Early argues that these polices are an extension of the strategy of labor management collaboration that must be replaced with rank-and-file initiative if American labor is to halt its long decline. Steve Early was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years. As a labor journalist he has written for numerous publications, from The Nation, to New York Times, work which was published as a collection titled Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home (Monthly Review Press 2009).