{"product_id":"fighting-times-jon-melrod-9781629639659","title":"Fighting Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors., as he strives to build a class-conscious workers' movement from the bottom up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA radical to the core, Melrod was a key part of campus insurrection at University of WisconsinMadison. He left campus for the factory in 1973, hired along with hundreds of youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing assembly line.Fighting Times paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires, many of whom were Black Vietnam vets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContaining dozens of archival photographs, Fighting Times captures the journey of a militant antiracist revolutionary who rose to the highest elected ranks of his UAW local without compromising his politics or his dedication to building a class-conscious workers' movement. The book will arm and inspire a new generation of labor organizers with the skills and attitude to challenge the odds and fight the egregious abuses of the exploitative capitalist system.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jon Melrod","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43636965867763,"sku":"9781629639659","price":44.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781629639659.jpg?v=1675969713","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/fighting-times-jon-melrod-9781629639659","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}