Our Members Be Unlimited: A Comic About Workers And Their Unions

by Sam Wallman

Paperback, 2022

Status

Checked out
Due 10/30/2023

Pages

256

Collection

Publication

Scribe US (2022), 256 pages

Description

In our current political climate, people are looking for answers - and alternatives. The promise of unions is that their 'members be unlimited': that they don't belong to the rich, the powerful, or special interests, but to all workers. How did the idea of unionism arise? Where has it flourished? And what are its challenges in the 21st century? From Britain to Bangladesh, from the first union of the 18th century to today, from solidarity in Walmart China to his own experiences in an Amazon warehouse in Melbourne, comics journalist Sam Wallman explores the urge to come together and cooperate that arises again and again in workers and workplaces everywhere. With a dynamic and distinctive art style, and writing that's both thoughtful and down to earth, Our Members Be Unlimited serves as an entry point for young people or those new to these notions of collective action, but also as an invigorating read to those already engaged in the struggle for better working conditions - and a better world.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member bohannon
This was a screed that I found difficult to read -- yet I'm glad I did. I tend to think that if society is going to allow collectivist capital (i.e., corporations), any pretense to fairness requires collectivist labor (i.e., unions). The book did a good job of painting why that's the case, and what
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in many ways, a union would ideally be. That said, there are definitely things the author would want a union to do, that I'm not sure they should -- and he implicitly draws a sharp substantive (and moral) distinction between collective capital and collective labor that I just don't see.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

256 p.; 9 inches

ISBN

1950354997 / 9781950354993

Rating

(7 ratings; 4.4)
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