{"content":[{"text":"fighting spirit of 1397 in its heyday, the U.S. labor movement would be in far better \n shape.” \n --Steve Early, former International Representative, Communications Workers of \n America and author of Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an \n American City","bbox":{"left":0.155137,"top":0.089071,"width":0.689552,"height":0.12540799999999996}},{"text":"\" I can see this book finding a privileged space on the shelves of American radicals. This \n is a labor history which is exciting, emotional and thought-provoking, a splendid example \n of radical history \n at it's best.\" \n —Andrej Grubacic, Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Social \n Change, CIIS-San Francisco, author of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on \n Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History","bbox":{"left":0.147098,"top":0.245889,"width":0.704644,"height":0.160295}},{"text":"“Women of Steel” was a pretty apt name for the women working in the mills, as Mike \n Stout shows us. These women stood together and stood up for themselves, plus organized \n the guys against corporate greed and union officials’ sexism. Stout’s description of the \n women’s strength, smarts, and leadership comes from the heart; he worked for members’ \n rights alongside these women, or stood behind them when they stepped forward. \n --Martha Gruelle, former co-editor, Labor Notes and co-author (with Mike Parker) \n of Democracy Is Power.","bbox":{"left":0.147098,"top":0.457496,"width":0.702977,"height":0.17548700000000006}},{"text":"The best movements have the most leaders, and Mike Stout does a great job introducing \n us to some of the many people who took on the steel industry and devious union \n bureaucrats during the last decade of US Steel’s Homestead Works in Pittsburgh. Mike’s \n union sisters and brothers built community alliances, and they had fun, partied together \n and mourned together. They made mistakes and built victories. It’s a story from the era of \n de-industrialization, but with lessons for all of us working to rebuild a powerful labor \n movement for the future.","bbox":{"left":0.147098,"top":0.664172,"width":0.7047840000000001,"height":0.17705500000000007}},{"text":"--Ken Paff, National Organizer, Teamsters for a Democratic Union","bbox":{"left":0.147098,"top":0.857364,"width":0.559523,"height":0.02098500000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}