Introduced by Mike Davis

Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt and Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s.

“This is an unusually high-quality effort, with an all-star cast of authors, which should attract wide interest ...” — Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara


Aaron Brenner is president of Rank & File Enterprises, a financial and labor research firm; Robert Brenner is Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA and author of The Economics of Global Turbulence and The Boom and the Bubble; Cal Winslow is Director of the Mendocino Institute and Fellow in Environmental Politics, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley.