U.S. Workers and the U.S. Labor Movement

Bruce Nissen
1981 Monthly review  
This essay (slightly updated here) was awarded the Michael Magdoff Memorial Essay Contest prize (see Notes from the Editors, MR, April 1981). Bruce Nissen was active in the student movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has a Ph.D. in social and political philosophy and taught philosophy for several years. In the late 1970s he served as vice president, shop-safety and health committee chairperson, and in several other capacities for Local 417, United Electrical Radio, and Machine
more » ... of America (UE). He is presently preparing to become a labor educator.
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