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, b...

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