Kim Moody's latest contribution, US Labor in Trouble and Transition tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following the dismal tale of union mergers and management partnerships that accompanied the retreat from militancy since the 1980s.
Looking to the future, Moody shows how the rise of immigrant labor and its efforts at self-organization can re-energize the unions from below.
Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and author of Workers in a Lean World. He has taught at the Cornell Labor Studies program and at Brooklyn College, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
