Welcome to the third issue of the white working class roundtable newsletter.
Special message to our readers: A second White working Class Roundtable is in preparation for the spring and will feature a wide range of leading progressive thinkers and strategists responding to a strategy paper by top pollster and analyst Stan Greenberg. The roundtable promises to make a serious contribution to progressive and Democratic political thinking about the white working class.
This issue's special focus: The trade union movement, the white working class and the rise of unconventional organizing.
During last fall and winter an unprecedented number of articles and commentaries appeared discussing the current state of the American labor movement and its prospects for the future. These analyses considered both what unions can do to reverse their current decline, the current attacks being launched against them and also the potential of alternative forms of protest and organization.
The following sections present a wide selection of the articles and commentaries that have appeared since last summer.
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