Steve Early, Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home Monthly Review Press, 2009
When Barack Obama was elected, many labor activists had great hopes for a turnaround for the union movement, which has been shrinking alarmingly over the past several decades. But nearly a year into Obama's presidency, things don't look so bright. Longtime labor organizer and journalist Steve Early talks about the state of unions in the midst of economic upheaval, as well as the legacy of sixties radicals in the labor movement today, union democracy, and conflicts within the movement itself.