Jeremy Brecher

An updated edition of the work that relates the history of massive and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working Americans includes revised chapters that cover the four decades since its original 1972 release.

Strike!

Bonnie K. Nastasi

G. Alfred Hess, Jr.

G. Alfred Hess (jr.)

Marlene J. Berg

Lynne Williamson

Ruth Glasser

Volume 7 of the series The Ethnographer's Toolkit, which takes researchers and fieldworkers through the multiple, complex steps of doing ethnographic research. Case studies, checklists, key points to remember and references are all included.

Interventions, Public Programming, and Public Policy

Using Ethnographic Data

As world leaders eschew cooperation to address climate change, nuclear proliferation, economic meltdown, and other threats to our survival, more and more people experience a pervasive sense of dread and despair. Is there anything we can do? What can put us on the course from mutual destruction to common preservation? In the past, social movements have sometimes made rapid and unexpected changes that countered apparently incurable social problems. Jeremy Brecher presents scores of historical examples of people who changed history by adopting strategies of common preservation, showing what we can we learn from past social movements to better confront today’s global threats of climate change, war, and economic chaos. In Common Preservation, Brecher shares his experiences and what he has learned that can help ward off mutual destruction and provides a unique heuristic—a tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.

In a Time of Mutual Destruction

Common Preservation

 Tim Costello

 Brendan Smith

جيريمي برشر

تيم كوستيلو

برندان سميث

ما الغاية من هذا الكتاب؟ إن انبثاق حركة اجتماعية على نطاق عالمي هدفها العولمة من تحت، يغير أحوال العمل البشري، فهو يفتح إمكانيات جديدة لمعالجة مشاكل الفقر، والقهر، والحرب، وتدمير البيئة، وهي مشاكل قائمة منذ زمن طويل. ولكن العالم شيء آخر. إن الشروع في إنشاء حركة شيء، وتغيير ماهية هذه الإمكانيات الجديدة وكيفية الإفادة منها هما حاليا موضوع بحث دولي نشط. والقصد من هذا الكتاب هو أن يشكل إسهاما في ذلك الحوار. فهو يطرح منظورا نعتقد أن كثيرين في هذه الحركة يشاطروننا إياه، وهذا ما يبدو بصورة ضمنية في ما تفعله الحركة واقعيا. وغايتنا الأولى هي أن نجعل هذا المنظور يبدو واضحا ويبين الأمور التي ينطوي عليها ضمنيا بحيث يمكن أن نجعل منها موضوع نقد وتحسين . العبيكان للنشر 2003

Globalization from Below The Power of Solidarity

العولمة من تحت : قوة التضامن

'An exciting history of American labor....Brings to life the flashpoints of labor history....Scholarly, genuinely stirring.' The New York TimesStrike! narrates the exciting hidden history of the U.S. labor movement from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. This is a comprehensive history of mass strikes in the United States from 1877 through to the present day.

Her yıl temmuz ya da ağustos ayları, kuzey yarım kürede gelmiş geçmiş en sıcak ay ilan ediliyor. Günler en sıcak gün olmak için birbiriyle yarışıyor. İklim krizi yoktur, yalandır, uydurmadır diyenler, eski gazete sayfalarında saklanacak sayfa arıyor, yüzleri kızarıyor, kimsenin yüzüne bakamıyor. Bu arada hükümetler, lacivert takım elbiseli adamlarını ve döpiyes giymiş kadınlarını, çantalarında kalın kalın dosyalarla, Birleşmiş Milletler iklim konferanslarına göndererek, neden kendi ülkelerinin taahhütlerden muaf tutulmaları gerektiğine dair tezlerini uzun ve sıkıcı konuşmalarla anlatmaya, masanın diğer ucundaki ve kendileri gibi düşünen diğer ülke bürokratlarını ikna etmeye çalışıyorlar. Hele o ABD yok mu? Sera gazına herhangi bir sınırlandırma gelecek diye ödü kopuyor. Hükümet yetkilileri ardı ardına açıklamalar yapıyor, temsil ettikleri lobiler zarar edecek diye korkudan bacakları titriyor. Paris Anlaşması, yüzlerce ucundan tutulmuş bir ip gibi, bir o yana bir bu yana çekiliyor. Esasında kimsenin uzlaşmaya gönlü olmadığını herkesin bildiği bir körebe oyununa dönüyor. Tablonun öteki yüzündeyse bambaşka renkler var. Yaşam savunucuları okyanus ortasındaki ada devletlerinden, Avrupa’nın küçük şehirlerine, Amerika kıtasının dört bir yanından Asya bozkırlarına ve güneşin doğduğu ülke Japonya’ya kadar direniş halindeler. Dünya’nın bütün halkları teyakkuz halinde. Bu ayaklanma şiddetsiz ve küresel bir direnme. Sivil itaatsizlik eylemleri Galler’den Filipinler’e kadar yayılıyor. Hükümetler dünyayı yönetebilirler ancak bu onların insanlığın ortak mirası olan dünyanın sahibi oldukları anlamına gelmez. Bu dünyanın gerçek sahibi; insanı, ağaçları ve bütün yaşayan canlıları ile hepimiziz, bir tekini bile dışarıda bırakmadan yaşamı savunan aktivistleriz. İklim Direnişi, yaşam savunucularının kitabıdır. Hepsine selam olsun.

İklim Direnişi: Bir Hayatta Kalma Stratejisi

Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks, this exciting hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it. Encompassing the repeated repression of workers’ rebellions by company-sponsored violence, local police, state militias, and the U.S. Army and National Guard, it reveals a dimension of American history rarely found in the usual high school or college history course. Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Strike! to bring U.S. labor history to a wide audience. Now this fiftieth anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters covering the “mini-revolts of the twenty-first century,” including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials and concludes by examining a wide range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter, to the great wave of teachers’ strikes “for the soul of public education,” to the global “Student Strike for Climate” that may be harbingers of mass strikes to come.

Michael Yates

The book effectively deals with the legacy of the Reagan-Bush era: unemployment, underemployment, and the diminishing legal rights of union organizers. It also criticizes intrinsic weaknesses of traditional union organizing and the scape-goating of women, immigrants, and minority workers for the problems confronting U.S. society today.

The Legal Rights of Working People

Power on the Job

Tim Costello

In clear, accessible language, Brecher and Costello describe how people around the world have started challenging the New World Economy. From the Zapatistas of Chiapas to students in France to the broad-based anti-NAFTA and anti-GATT coalitions in the United States, opposition to economic globalization, Brecher and Costello argue, is becoming a worldwide revolt.

Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up

Global Village Or Global Pillage

Brendan Smith

Brecher, Costello, and Smith chart out a dynamic and innovative strategy for building the movement to challenge unchecked coporate globalization.

The Power of Solidarity

Globalization from Below

Jill Cutler

A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information has started to emerge—photographs from Abu Ghraib; accounts of U.S. attacks on Iraqi hospitals, mosques, and residential neighborhoods; secret government reports defending unilateral aggression—Americans have begun an agonizing reappraisal of the Iraq war and the way in which their government has conducted it. Drawing on a wide range of documents—from the protocols of the Geneva Convention to FBI e-mails about prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay to executive-branch papers justifying the circumvention of international law—In the Name of Democracy examines the legality of the Iraq war and the occupation that followed. Included in this powerful investigation are eyewitness accounts, victim testimonials, statements by soldiers turned resisters and whistle-blowers, interviews with intelligence insiders, and contributions by Mark Danner and Seymour Hersh. The result is a controversial, chilling anthology that explores the culpability of officials as well as the responsibilities of ordinary citizens, and for the first time squarely confronts the matter of American impunity.

Jeremy Brecher

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