{"product_id":"raising-expectations-and-raising-hell-my-decade-fighting-for-the-labor-movement-9781844678853","title":"Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1995  in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO  John Sweeney won the presidency of the nations largest labor federation  promising renewal and resurgence. Today  less than 7 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a union  the lowest percentage since the beginning of the twentieth century  and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. What happened?  Jane McAlevey is famousand notoriousin the American labor movement as the hard-charging organizer who racked up a string of victories at a time when union leaders said winning wasnt possible. Then she was bounced from the movement  a victim of the high-level internecine warfare that has torn apart organized labor. In this engrossing and funny narrativethat reflects the personality of its charismatic  wisecracking authorMcAlevey tells the story of a number of dramatic organizing and contract victories  and the unconventional strategies that helped achieve them.  Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) argues that labor can be revived  but only if the movement acknowledges its mistakes and fully commits to deep organizing  participatory education  militancy  and an approach to workers and their communities that more resembles the campaigns of the 1930sin short  social movement unionism that involves raising workers expectations (while raising hell).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652004995125,"sku":"ByrdShop_1844678857","price":233.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781844678853.jpg?v=1781848374","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/raising-expectations-and-raising-hell-my-decade-fighting-for-the-labor-movement-9781844678853","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}