A. E. Staley
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Allied Industrial Workers Local 837
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Author_Steven K. Ashby
black community
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civil disobedience
corn processing
Decatur
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252076404
- Weight: 594g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2009
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This on-the-ground labor history chronicles the bitterly contested labor conflict in the mid 1990s at the A. E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where workers waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. When the company launched a full-scale assault on its workers, Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and African American communities, building a nationwide solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. Through scores of interviews and videotapes of every union meeting, the authors bring the workers' voices to the fore and reveal their innovative tactics that inform and strengthen today's labor movement.
Steven K. Ashby is an associate clinical professor in the Chicago Labor Education Program in the School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. C. J. Hawking is a United Methodist pastor and the executive director of the faith-based workers' rights group Arise Chicago. Both were Staley workers' solidarity organizers.
