"These extraordinary reflections by activist-scholars and veteran organizers challenge the reigning stereotypes of the trajectories of the 1960s New Left and Black Liberation movements. Even more importantly, this collection dramatically reasserts the role of rank-and-file revolt in shaping American labor history and offers rich lessons to contemporary rebels." Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream<BR><BR>"This is an unusually high-quality effort, with an all-star cast of authors, which should attract wide interest." Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History, UC Santa Barbara<BR><BR>"A bracing and often electrifying set of meditations on recent labor history and the Left social movements which attended the 1960s and their aftermath. A primer and a call to arms for a radical rank-and-file politics." Michael Watts, Professor of Geography and Development Studies, UC Berkeley<BR><BR>From the mid-1960s to 1981, rank-and-file workers in the United States engaged in a level of sustained militancy not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. Millions participated in one of the largest strike waves in US history. There were 5,716 stoppages in 1970 alone, involving more than 3 million workers, Contract rejections, collective insubordination, sabotage, organized slowdowns, and wildcat strikes were the order of the day.<BR><BR>Workers targeted much of their activity at union leaders, forming caucuses to fight for more democratic and combative unions that would forcefully resist the mounting offensive from employers that appeared at the end of the postwar economic boom. It was a remarkable era in the history of US class struggle, one rich in lessons for today's labor movement.