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Workers Can Win
A Guide to Organising at Work
Series: Wildcat
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Ideal for rank-and-file workers, union activists, and those interested in labour organising and social change.
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A nuts-and-bolts guide to organising your workplace
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The Covid, climate, and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the air. It's more obvious than ever that we need radical social and political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour movements, where should we begin? For longtime workplace activist Ian Allinson, the answer is clear: organising at work is essential to rebuild working-class power.
The premise is simple: organising builds confidence, capacity, and collective power – and with power, we can win change. Workers Can Win is an essential, practical guide for rank-and-file workers and union activists. Drawing on more than 20 years of organising experience, Allinson combines practical techniques with an analysis of the theory and politics of organising and unions.
The book offers insight into tried and tested methods for effective organising. It deals with tactics and strategies, and addresses some of the roots of conflict, common problems with unions, and the resistance of management to worker organising. As a 101 guide to workplace organising with politically radical horizons, Workers Can Win is destined to become an essential tool for workplace struggles in the years to come.
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Workers Can Win
The Covid, climate, and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the air. It's more obvious than ever that we need radical social and political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour movements, where should we begin? For longtime workplace activist Ian Allinson, the answer is clear: organising at work is essential to rebuild working-class power. The...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
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Wobblies of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods, including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labelled as 'revolutionary industrial unionism' and the members called, affectionately,...Paperback$12600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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ISBN: 9780745347813
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 October 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Illustration: 9 Figures; 50 Illustrations, black and white
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Colin Revolting
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 290g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Ian Allinson has been a workplace activist since 1991, working for a private sector employer which didn’t recognise a union for most workers, and where he led a number of strikes including the first national strike in the IT industry. He served ten years on the national Executive Committees of Amicus and Unite, and was a candidate for Unite General Secretary in 2017. He is currently industrial action coordinator on the executive committee of Manchester TUC, where he was previously President. Colin Revolting’s cartoons have been published by New Musical Express and the Ramblers Association. Colin has twice been dismissed for organising at work – once in a large public institution and later in a small charity. He is still trying to organise at work, hence the pseudonym.
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