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kirstenf's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
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Minor: Classism
candelibri's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Very readable and very informative. I was very happy with the ebook version I picked up from Haymarket Books as it made annotating very accessible. I'll have to come back to this to leave a longer review but I do recommend to anyone who is interested in exploring the history and the usefulness of unions
nadavdavid's review
4.0
I thought the assessment of the current state of the labor movement, and the history that led it to this moment, was comprehensive and useful. The author describes a powerful way forward, class struggle unionism, but I found the details of what that looks like in practice to be thinner than I’d hoped for. Super curious how folks organizing more actively in the labor movement are reacting to this text, hit me up!
essdog's review
3.0
Burns has written a polemic, trying to inspire a new tendency of labor militant. He's very generous with his citations of other scholars and activists. Readers should follow his bibliography. I would argue that there's more nuance to–and diversity of–"business unionism" and liberal "unionism," but then that's not the point of his book. And also probably why he sells more books than I do.
markwithac's review against another edition
Can’t tell if I’m just not in the mood or there’s something else, but I’m putting this one down for a bit