Joe Clement concludes their conversation with Marianne Garneau, an organizer and educator with the Industrial Workers of the World, and publisher of the online worker journal Organizing.Work about the politics of the Big Strike and the retreat from direct action and organizing for power on the job. They consider how building up an assertive shop-floor culture of day-to-day struggle around greivances and control over the pace and nature of work lays the indispensible groundwork for labor's transformative potential, without which big strikes are wheels without axles.
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