Book event: "Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement"

Submitted by dcjwj on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 7:15pm.
6 Apr 2010 - 7:00pm
6 Apr 2010 - 9:00pm

Book reading and discussion

Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Busboys & Poets
5th & K, NW

Tom Frank will introduce Steven Ashby & C. J. Hawking at this event for their book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, a gripping chronicle of a pivotal battle in the mid-1990s at the A. E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where workers waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. While the strike ultimately failed, Hawking and Ashby argue that tactics developed by the locked-out workers offer important lessons for today's labor movement. Jeremy Brecher calls it "[o]ne of the best accounts of a labor conflict ever written." Tom Frank (author of What's the Matter with Kansas and The Wrecking Crew and Wall Street Journal columnist) covered the Staley strike for the Chicago Reader.

Co-sponsored by DC Jobs with Justice / Interfaith Worker Justice of Greater Washington