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Hard-Pressed in the Heartland

The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement

Peter Rachleff

Pages: 135
ISBN: 0-89608-450-7
Format: paper
Release Date: 1993-01-01

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Description of Hard-Pressed in the Heartland.

For those who loved Barbara Koppel’s film documentary American Dream, here’s another angle on the story of P–9, a Minnesota meatpackers union local that fought both a conservative national union leadership and management’s drive for concessions during a heartbreaking strike in 1985–86. Going beyond academic history, it offers useful perspectives for rebuilding a democratic, militant, community-based unionism that can succeed where today's bureaucratic unionism cannot. Includes a history of the radical 1930s International Union of All Workers.