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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning. Until today. Because, as McAlevey shows, unions are making a comeback. Want to reverse the nation’s mounting wealth gap? Put an end to sexual harassment in the workplace? End racial disparities on the job? Negotiate climate justice? Bring back unions. As McAlevey travels from Pennsylvania hospitals, where nurses are building a new kind of patient-centered unionism, to Silicon Valley, where tech workers have turned to old-fashioned collective action, to the battle being waged by America’s teachers, readers have a ringside seat at the struggles that will shape our country—and our future.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780062908605","publication_date":"20210427","publisher":"HarperCollins","slug":"a-collective-bargain","subtitle":"Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy","title":"A Collective Bargain"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"BUS038010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Unions & Labor","score":1,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POL042060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Capitalism & Markets","score":0.7392,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POL042040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Radical Politics","score":0.727,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"BUS038010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Unions & Labor","score":1,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POL042060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Capitalism & Markets","score":0.7392,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POL042040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Radical Politics","score":0.727,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BUS023000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Economic History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BUS038010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Unions & Labor","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BUS042000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Management Science","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BUS046000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Business Motivation","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BUS071000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Leadership","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS037000","confidence_band":"high","label":"World History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POL005000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Communism & Socialism","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POL013000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Labor & Industrial Relations","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Unions & Labor","score":1,"slug":"unions-labor"},{"label":"Capitalism & Markets","score":0.7392,"slug":"capitalism-markets"},{"label":"Radical Politics","score":0.727,"slug":"radical-politics"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Unions & Labor","Good for readers interested in democracy","Good for readers who enjoy Unions & Labor and Capitalism & Markets."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["John Cassidy"],"book_id":"9780374601089","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780374601089.jpg?v=20260529T161654Z%3A2026-05-29T17%3A17%3A38Z","score":16.8311,"title":"Capitalism and Its Critics","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780374601089"},{"authors":["Gabriel Winant"],"book_id":"9780674292192","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780674292192.jpg?v=20260529T161654Z%3A2026-05-29T17%3A17%3A38Z","score":16.8078,"title":"Next Shift","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780674292192"},{"authors":["Bhu Srinivasan"],"book_id":"9780399563812","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780399563812.jpg?v=20260529T161654Z%3A2026-05-29T17%3A17%3A38Z","score":16.7317,"title":"Americana","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780399563812"},{"authors":["Danny Katch","Dara Rosenberg","Audible Studios"],"book_id":"9781642598322","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781642598322.jpg?v=20260529T161654Z%3A2026-05-29T17%3A17%3A38Z","score":16.4946,"title":"Socialism . . . 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