Cal Winslow (142 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. This book examines one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. In 2006 and 2007, disputes developed concerning the practice and direction of the 150,000 member healthcare workers union in California, United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW), with its "parent" organization, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). SEIU is the second largest union in the US, the fastest growing in recent years. It is a well-organized, well-financed organization, with an ambitious agenda. SEIU perspectives, while packaged as progressive, reject traditional union traditions and practices - union democracy and the idea of "class struggle" are replaced with class collaboration, and the union frequently "wheels and deals" directly with top management and politicians. In 2007 UHW rejected these perspectives and contested them within the union. The SEIU international leadership retaliated by placing UHW in trusteeship, firing its officers, seizing its assets, and taking control of all union's activities. UHW leaders and members responded by forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and challenging the SEIU in virtually every unionized site in the state. This California conflict--SEIU vs. NUHW--is no local brawl; it is not about personalities, it is not about West Coast eccentricities. Its significance is not confined to the fortunes of just one particular union. SEIU's attack, however regrettable, is not the first such--nor will it be the last. The truth is that labor has always been divided, comprised of many currents. The truth is also that there are rights and wrongs in labor, as elsewhere, and that these can expose fundamental divides--in this case two contesting souls in the workers' movement. These are sharply on display today in this dispute--the one soul authoritarian, top-down, collaborationist, the other bottom-up, rank-and-file, class conscious.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This book examines one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. In 2006 and 2007, disputes developed concerning the practice and direction of the 150,000 member healthcare workers union in California, United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW), with its "parent" organization, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). SEIU is the second largest union in the US, the fastest growing in recent years. It is a well-organized, well-financed organization, with an ambitious agenda. SEIU perspectives, while packaged as progressive, reject traditional union traditions and practices - union democracy and the idea of "class struggle" are replaced with class collaboration, and the union frequently "wheels and deals" directly with top management and politicians. In 2007 UHW rejected these perspectives and contested them within the union. The SEIU international leadership retaliated by placing UHW in trusteeship, firing its officers, seizing its assets, and taking control of all union's activities. UHW leaders and members responded by forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and challenging the SEIU in virtually every unionized site in the state. This California conflict--SEIU vs. NUHW--is no local brawl; it is not about personalities, it is not about West Coast eccentricities. Its significance is not confined to the fortunes of just one particular union. SEIU's attack, however regrettable, is not the first such--nor will it be the last. The truth is that labor has always been divided, comprised of many currents. The truth is also that there are rights and wrongs in labor, as elsewhere, and that these can expose fundamental divides--in this case two contesting souls in the workers' movement. These are sharply on display today in this dispute--the one soul authoritarian, top-down, collaborationist, the other bottom-up, rank-and-file, class conscious.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the streets, others decided simply to turn away, seeking to build another world together, outside the state and the market. West of Eden charts the remarkable flowering of communalism in the 1960s and '70s, fueled by a radical rejection of the Cold War corporate deal, utopian visions of a peaceful green planet, the new technologies of sound and light, and the ancient arts of ecstatic release. The book focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area and its hinterlands, which have long been creative spaces for social experiment. Haight-Ashbury's gift economy--its free clinic, concerts, and street theatre--and Berkeley's liberated zones--Sproul Plaza, Telegraph Avenue, and People's Park--were embedded in a wider network of producer and consumer co-ops, food conspiracies, and collective schemes. Using memoir and flashbacks, oral history and archival sources, West of Eden explores the deep historical roots and the enduring, though often disavowed, legacies of the extraordinary pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption, including the contradictions evident in such figures as the guru/predator or the hippie/entrepreneur. There are vivid portraits of life on the rural communes of Mendocino and Sonoma, and essays on the Black Panther communal households in Oakland, the latter-day Diggers of San Francisco, the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, the pioneers of live/work space for artists, and the Bucky dome as the iconic architectural form of the sixties. Due to the prevailing amnesia--partly imposed by official narratives, partly self-imposed in the aftermath of defeat--West of Eden is not only a necessary act of reclamation, helping to record the unwritten stories of the motley generation of communards and antinomians now passing, but is also intended as an offering to the coming generation who will find here, in the rubble of the twentieth century, a past they can use--indeed one they will need--in the passage from the privations of commodity capitalism to an ample life in common.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the streets, others decided simply to turn away, seeking to build another world together, outside the state and the market. West of Eden charts the remarkable flowering of communalism in the 1960s and '70s, fueled by a radical rejection of the Cold War corporate deal, utopian visions of a peaceful green planet, the new technologies of sound and light, and the ancient arts of ecstatic release. The book focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area and its hinterlands, which have long been creative spaces for social experiment. Haight-Ashbury's gift economy--its free clinic, concerts, and street theatre--and Berkeley's liberated zones--Sproul Plaza, Telegraph Avenue, and People's Park--were embedded in a wider network of producer and consumer co-ops, food conspiracies, and collective schemes. Using memoir and flashbacks, oral history and archival sources, West of Eden explores the deep historical roots and the enduring, though often disavowed, legacies of the extraordinary pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption, including the contradictions evident in such figures as the guru/predator or the hippie/entrepreneur. There are vivid portraits of life on the rural communes of Mendocino and Sonoma, and essays on the Black Panther communal households in Oakland, the latter-day Diggers of San Francisco, the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, the pioneers of live/work space for artists, and the Bucky dome as the iconic architectural form of the sixties. Due to the prevailing amnesia--partly imposed by official narratives, partly self-imposed in the aftermath of defeat--West of Eden is not only a necessary act of reclamation, helping to record the unwritten stories of the motley generation of communards and antinomians now passing, but is also intended as an offering to the coming generation who will find here, in the rubble of the twentieth century, a past they can use--indeed one they will need--in the passage from the privations of commodity capitalism to an ample life in common.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectorsstreetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workersfed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First US Edition. First American Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked wraps with light wear to extremities, faint creases to spine; tight, solid and square. Iinterior is clean with underlined and bracketed text and some notes written in, all neat and does not interfere with easy reading. A good, solid, clean volume. An exploration of the contrasts of a settled ruling class ruling through a form of judicial terror and a populace deferential by day but deeply insubordinate by night. A very different look at 18th century England, from the England of the aristocracy and gentry, of politeness, of the arts, culture. 352 pages with index. 8.25 x 5.4 inches. Pantheon Books-Random House, New York, 1976.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; DEEP RED & WHITE titles on glossy BLUE paper covers showing POPULAR CROWD AT PUBLIC HANGING.much jovial & comic behaviour. ; 352 pages. Illustrated by Hogarth cover art"Idle Prentice execution tyburn" (illustrator). …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectorsstreetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workersfed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Nice clean copy.

Paperback. 122p., 5x8 inches, wraps, like new.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, tight and fresh; no marks. Just superficial shelf evidence to cover edges. VG+.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 121pp inscribed by author.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California. Book.