The book overturns myths that workers turned away from unions and that unions stopped reaching out and organizing during the 1970s, a pivotal decade. Instead, as women and people of color gained new access to the full job market after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, they began demanding unions. Young workers, especially black workers and women, powered an unseen wave of union organizing in the 1970s that has been overlooked by historians and journalists. Employers, however, united to manipulate weak labor law and quash the new surge of worker organizing.
Here I've gathered links to the "greatest hits" from my various podcasts, interviews, and articles that focus on Knocking on Labor's Door:
Today's article in Working-Class Perspectives on sexual harassment: #MeToo Solidarity
My article in the Washington Post: The Media Still Gets the Working Class Wrong, but Not in the Way You Think
Q&A with Justin Miller in The American Prospect: The New Workers, and New Militancy, of the 1970s
Who Makes Sense podcast:
Working History podcast episode
My blog post for LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association
Excerpt in Social Policy magazine on 9to5
And check on the dedicated Facebook page
The book is available through the UNC Press site, on Amazon, through The Regulator bookshop (awesome independent book store in Durham, NC), through Powell Books, and at other book stores.
