[lbo-talk] Fwd: Towards a Union of the Unemployed ?

Max Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Tue Dec 8 05:59:03 PST 2009


The history of NWRO would be relevant. Also, community action programs in the 60s. Also, SDS community organizing, circa 1960-1965.

See also Cloward and Piven, "Poor Peoples' Movements."

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/6/09, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Does anyone know the history of attempts to build a union of the unemployed
>>  in the US or attempts by organized labor to reach out to the unemployed?
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> Didn't the Wobblies do some of that?
>
> Their line was "one big union", the whole working class. They thought
> having separate unions for, say, steel workers and farm labourers was
> just playing into the hands of the bosses, allowing divide & conquer.
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