The Way I See It: Perspectives on the Labor Movement from the People in It

We have woven union representative Suzan Erem's personal essay on the passions and pitfalls of her chosen vocation with italicized statements that Paul Durrenberger recorded from workers at meetings and during interviews with stewards, reps, and union officers to depict some points of view about the labor movement in the United States today that are not articulated by unions, their opponents, or the press. These sometimes contradictory inside views come from several different structural positions. Paul Durrenberger collected the interview material during the course of a study that involved a number of worksites and the staff of Local 73, all in the Chicago area.