Unions Renewed

Unions Renewed is a must-read for all in the labour movement who believe that winning working class power extends beyond government, and must be built from organising in our communities and workplaces, democratising our economy and, necessarily, our trade unions. Nadia Whittome, care worker and Labour MP for Nottingham East In one of the best simple explanations of financialization I have seen, Unions Renewed dissects how Private Equity corporations profit while destroying jobs. It calls on unions to develop new strategies to rebuild workers' power based on how the economy has been reorganized. Stephen Lerner, US Labor Organizer, Founder of the 'Justice for Janitors' campaign Unions Renewed offers a critique of labour's strategic status quo grounded in a clear and powerful analysis of the shifting economic ground beneath us. The authors think both historically and globally and their insights just keep coming. This book will make a real difference. Sam Pizzigati, labour journalist and associate fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC The profound social and workforce changes around the dynamics of class, race and gender pose significant challenges, and opportunities, to the trade union movement. To act on this, radical solutions are required which move beyond traditional modes of worker organization. Insights in this important new book shine a light on this changing context and help to chart new pathways to the restoration of trade union legitimacy and power. Dr Ian Manborde, Equalities and Diversity Organizer, Equity trade union; former programme coordinator of the MA in International Labour and Trade Union Studies (ILTUS) at Ruskin College, Oxford; founding member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (UK) Unions Renewed is a clarion call for a stronger, fiercer, better labour movement and it couldn't come at a more important time. While too much of the conversation about the working class is mired in nostalgic dreams of a past that never really was, Martin and Quick have explained why labour must understand the economy that we currently have in order to take power and shape the future. Read it, and then share it with your coworkers. Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and Work Won't Love You Back