Book Announcement: "Overcoming Capitalism - Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century" Tom Wetzel (Author)

Submitted by syndicalist on November 27, 2021

I see Tom has a release date and price for his book.
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Overcoming Capitalism:
Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century

Tom Wetzel (Author)
Publisher: AK Press
Pages: 400
Released: April 19, 2022
$20.00 (USD)

"Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the powerless can get the upper hand. And it’s written for everyone—not a specialized, self-selected audience. Tom Wetzel carefully explains how capitalism works and how the structure is stacked against us with an eye toward where power lies and how we can tip the scales.

The book is a twenty-first century reworking of the approach to unionism. The United States has a dramatic history of workers organizing on the job. In the last 70-odd years labor organizations have made peace with owners, and wages, various protections, and safety has diminished. All during an era that, despite its ups and downs, has been extremely profitable for the ownership class. Wetzel provides a solution to that failure by showing how a democratic outcome can be built into the method of struggle for social change, giving working people the means to ensure they will end up in control of the labor process and the larger society. But this isn’t the old white guy in a hard hat unionism of the previous century. The working class has changed. Life under capitalism has changed. How we think about unionism must also change.
While the political and capitalist class wring their hands over the environmental crisis and economic inequality we can see the immediate appeal of a union movement with an expanded mission to wrest control from the wealthy and powerful before they cost-shift us into extinction."

https://www.akpress.org/overcoming-capitalism.html?

syndicalist

2 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on November 29, 2021

I've had the opportunity to read some of the labor stuff. Tom makes his vision clear. Good writer, regardless of whether one agrees with some or all of his writing and politics.

sabot

2 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by sabot on November 29, 2021

Any idea if a digital copy will be available for this book?

syndicalist

2 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on November 29, 2021

sabot

Any idea if a digital copy will be available for this book?

I've reached out to Tom on this. Perhaps he'll directly reply. I don't know the answer.

syndicalistcat

2 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalistcat on November 29, 2021

hi sabot,

I'm not sure whether AK Press is doing an ebook, if that's what you mean. I can ask them. I would guess they probably will.

tomw

sabot

2 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by sabot on November 29, 2021

It's cool, I was just curious. I'll find out when they release it. Yes, an ebook.