The Future We Need : : Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century / / Sarita Gupta, Erica Smiley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Smiley, Erica,; Gupta, Sarita,
• MitwirkendeR: Smith, DeMaurice F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 3 maps

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people—not only changing their wages and working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of their lives.Weaving together stories of real working people, Smiley and Gupta position the struggle to build collective bargaining power as a central element in the effort to build a healthy democracy and explore both existing levers of power and new ones we must build for workers to have the ability to negotiate in today and tomorrow's contexts. The Future We Need illustrates the necessity of centralizing the fight against white supremacy and gender discrimination, while offering paths forward to harness the power of collective bargaining in every area for a new era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION Who Rules? -- Part 1 HOW DID WE GET HERE? -- 1 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING A Powerful but Neglected Tool -- 2 WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY DOES NOT HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT A Story of US Labor Movements -- 3 THE GREAT ROLLBACK Capital Fights Back -- Part 2 THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY -- PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR Erica Smiley: In Exactly the Right Place -- 4 WORTH FIGHTING FOR Collective Bargaining in the Workplace -- 5 BEYOND WORKERS Organizing Whole People -- 6 ORGANIZING ALL PEOPLE We Will Not Win without Destroying White Supremacy and Patriarchy -- 7 BEYOND THE RED AND THE BLUE A New Map for Twenty-First- Century Organizers -- Part 3 THE WAY WE WIN -- PROFILE OF THE AUTHOR Sarita Gupta: Making Meaning of the World -- 8 BARGAINING WITH THE REAL DECISION-MAKERS The Ultimate Profiteers of Global Capitalism -- 9 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN BARGAINING Negotiating beyond the Workplace -- 10 BUILDING LONG-TERM LABOR-COMMUNITY POWER Bargaining for the Common Good -- 11 WHO BENEFITS? Technology, Work, and a Future Not Yet Written -- CONCLUSION What It Takes -- Acknowledgments -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index