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Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries
The Story Of The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers
Walda Katz-FishmanSeries: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity(0)
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Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and the wildcat strike that sparked the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The authors describe the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971. They explore the centrality of struggle and political education as the League split and a section of League comrades moved into revolutionary organizations and social movement spaces, many of which remain active today. League comrades share their analysis of the current moment and staying the course of revolutionary struggle.
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"At long last! Here is the story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, one of the most important working-class movements in U.S. history, as told by the very people who made it and lived it. Reflection on the experience of the League and the lessons we must draw from it and from the revolutionary political organizations that developed out of it could not be more vital at this barbarous tim
William I. Robinson
"Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries is an essential contribution to the understanding of a transformative period in post-World War II United States capitalism. It reveals, in deeply personal narratives, the formation of a workers' movement in the automotive industry that challenges both race and class oppression in the factories and within the UAW. It's a history that few are a
Gene Bruskin
"Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries is an exceptionally powerful analysis of the 1969 formation and history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. These workers in the Detroit automobile industry developed into working class revolutionaries who studied and struggled for social transformation at the point of production and beyond. They took on the exploitative automobile
Rose M. Brewer