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Article Excerpt
The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements by Dan CLAWSON, Ithaca: ILR Press, 2003, 256 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8870-2.
The Next Upsurge contributes to the literature of social-movement unionism; it argues that the future of unions depends less on the actions of leaders and organizations than on a reemergence of grassroots militancy and energy. Central to Dan Clawson's point of view, however, is that it is necessary for labour to reach out to and link with what he calls "1960s" social movements of women, people of colour, and other identity groups. Thus, he tries to update movement concepts and strategies from the 1930s, based on a relatively uniform working class, by incorporating a diverse set of groups that have so far remained on the margins of the labour movement.
The bulk of the book focuses on particular types of (potential) movements. There is a chapter on "gender styles and union issues," in which Clawson laments organized labour's missed opportunity in its relations with women's groups. There is a chapter on "community and color," examining efforts at local organizing groups largely on ethnic lines. A chapter on "neoliberal globalization" looks...
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