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Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) : My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Mcalevey, Jane, Ostertag, Bob is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage since the beginning of the twentieth century, and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. What happened? Jane McAlevey is famous-and notorious-in the American
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- Author
- Mcalevey, Jane, Ostertag, Bob
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781781684504
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Science, Political Science, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (82 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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