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The Jackson Project: War in the American Workplace

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“Relating to the issues confronting working people and their unions lately, Phil Cohen knows what he is talking about as few people do . . . through knowledge born of bare-knuckle experience.” –Si Kahn

The Jackson Project is a dramatic, hard-hitting account of a brutal labor dispute at a West Tennessee textile mill. A historically accurate page turner, this is among the few books about unions written by a frontline participant.

In the spring of 1989, union organizer Phil Cohen journeyed to Jackson, Tennesee, to rebuild a troubled local and the problems were daunting: an anti-union company in financial disarray, sharply declining union membership, and myriad place of business grievances. Within the tumultuous months ahead, as ownership of the plant twice changed hands, shutting down and then reopening to exclude union leaders and senior employees, he would risk his life and believe desperate measures to salvage the unions cause.

In this riveting memoir, Cohen taken the reader from the union hall and factory gates to the bargaining table and courtroom, and untimately to the picket line. We get to know the millworkers with whom he formed close bonds, including a stormy romance with a young woman on the plant. His up-close account brims with vivid descriptions of the negotiating process, the grinding work on the textile mill, the lives of its employees, and the grim realities of union busting in The usa.

The last generation of the old south and it is textile subculture are portrayed as they come to terms with a changing economy, racial dynamics, and the introduction of hard drugs to their community. When the organizer’s four year old daughter accompanies him to the field, a unique and unexpected dimension is added to the tale.

The Jackson Project offers readers a rare insider’s view of the American labor movement in action.

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