Labor Pains: Inside America’s New Union Movement
By Suzan Erem
Erem has worked in the union movement for the past dozen years as an organizer, a union rep, and a communications director. Her book is an account of the struggle to re-build a vibrant and powerful trade union movement. She examines conflicting demands of race, class, and gender and, while never underestimating the obstacles, she makes a powerful and passionate case for organizing the disorganized and empowering the powerless.