Email from PM Press ----20% OFF THIS NEW BOOK!------- TAKE 20% OFF WITH COUPON CODE "MARCH"   Out of the Lab, Into the Streets: An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California Edited by Aleida García Aguirre, with Molly Vine and Patrick Dexter $25.95 $20.76 Buy the PAPERBACK $8.95 $7.16 E-BOOK USE COUPON CODE "MARCH" WHEN CHECKING OUT Out of the Lab, Into the Streets tells the story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy in one of the fastest growing sectors of the labor movement. In doing so, these workers also taught organizers everywhere lessons about the effectiveness of collective power cemented through worker-to-worker organizing, militant escalation strategies, and cross-union solidarity. On November 14, 2022, academic workers of the University of California began a strike that brought workers out of the lab and into the streets for six weeks to fight for more equitable working conditions. The strike was a point of arrival and a process at the same time. It was the hard-fought achievement of a short- and long-term history of union organizing and a learning practice for workers across campuses, disciplines, job classifications, political affiliations, and identities. This book documents the everyday and on-the-ground making of union organizing and power building. The nine workers who gave lengthy testimonies for this project challenge preconceptions about the advantages and difficulties of organizing in higher education. They make insightful analyses of how being active union members transformed them personally and reshaped their approach to science and education. Union organizers and other activists will find lessons and reflections on core topics for the labor movement: how to build a worker-led union, the practical meaning of democracy during mass action, dissent and unity amongst workers, and how to measure a fight's success. Within these nuanced accounts of militant organizing, everyone will find inspiration to keep collective power alive and keep fighting for a better future. Praise “A rare, honest, revealing, and instructive book on the unforgiving but essential work that goes into union organizing told through unguarded first-person accounts of UC academic workers as they fought for their rightful place in labor history.” —Dolores Huerta, American labor leader and civil rights activist who cofounded the United Farm Workers union with César Chávez “Anybody interested in joining with their coworkers to take collective action and win big should read this book.” —Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers “The oral histories collected in this extraordinarily compelling book constitute the most intimate and revealing strike history I’ve ever encountered...In this set of nine oral histories, solidarity, militancy, and union democracy cease to be abstractions and become tactile, tangible, first-person realities.” —Nelson Lichtenstein, coeditor of Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today “In their own words, nine academic workers show us how they organized, escalated and won real change—and how we can, too.” —Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants–CWA “Whether you’re a college student learning about unions for the first time or a seasoned union member, this is a must-read for anyone who believes in the power of collective action to create a better world.” —Hugo Soto-Martínez, Los Angeles City Council member and lifelong union organizer “Out of the Lab, Into the Streets is an invaluable look into the behind-the-scenes work of organizing. 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