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"In 2017, Workers United/SEIU called veteran organizer Phil Cohen out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot by Mohawk Industries at a North Carolina carpet mill. His hard-hitting account chronicles the resulting labor dispute that rocked a Fortune 500 company. The organizer had to prove management was behind an illegal decertification petition and forced workers to sign using strong-arm tactics. Though terrified of retaliation, witnesses gradually agreed to testify before federal agents. Mohawk retained a high-powered union-busting attorney who appealed directly to ultra-conservative heads of the National Labor Relations Board, while Right to Work Committee lawyers framed the issue as a test case to revoke laws protecting employee rights. The union's only hope rested on presenting evidence too formidable for political bias to surmount. This memoir, infused with dry wit and insights into human nature, blows the lid off the nation's union-busting epidemic, thrusting readers into the tumultuous environment of a union hall in crisis."

Bringing together material written over the past two decades, this book traces a history of political and intellectual debates around central issues of education, labour and the youth question. An argument is made for linking the cultural, structural and autobiographical dimensions of the youth question in order to engage educationally with the burden of representation which young people are made to carry via race, class and sexuality in the postmodern world. The book includes three major unpublished pieces and an introduction which discusses the nature of the collection, and sets it in both a personal and political context

In this article the author wants to focus on the impact of changes on the cultural politics of the left intelligentsia by revisiting Gramsci's famous formula for surviving setbacks and difficult times: pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. The author's argument will be that this formula has undergone a radical inversion. People can learn from Gramsci's life and work that in the battle to win hearts and minds it is important not to split them apart -- or to separate theory from practice, values from policies, politics from economics -- and that there is a need to engage in the nitty-gritty of actual campaigns and struggles, to become in that sense organic intellectuals or scholar activists. Today people need to build a discourse of uncommon sense to focus the discontents of the new precariat around accessible points of orientation. This certainly will involve breaking new ideological ground and engaging with issues unfamiliar to the traditional left. Adapted from the source document.