Table of Contents

Foreword Mike Hamlin VII

Preface Aaron Brenner XI

Acknowledgments xxi

1 Overview: The Rebellion from Below, 1965-81 Cal Winslow 1

2 The Political Economy of the Rank-and-File Rebellion Robert Brenner 37

3 Conflict, Change, and Economic Policy in the Long 1970s Judith Stein 77

4 Understanding the Rank-and-File Rebellion in the Long 1970s Kim Moody 105

5 The United Farm Workers from the Ground Up Frank Bardacke 149

6 Rank-and-File Movements in the United Mine Workers of America, Early 1960s-Early 1980s Paul J. Nyden 173

7 The Tumultuous Teamsters of the 1970s Dan La Botz 199

8 Militancy in Many Forms: Teachers Strikes and Urban Insurrection, 1967-74 Marjorie Murphy 229

9 Rank-and-File Struggles at the Telephone Company Aaron Brenner 251

10 Rank-and-File Opposition in the UAW During the Long 1970s A. C. Jones 281

11 American Petrograd: Detroit and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers Kieran Taylor 311

12 "A Spontaneous Loss of Enthusiasm": Workplace Feminism and the Transformation of Women's Service Jobs in the 1970s Dorothy Sue Cobble 335

13 The Enduring Legacy and Contemporary Relevance of Labor Insurgency in the 1970s Steve Early 357

List of Contributors 395

Index 399