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Author | : Michael D. Yates |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1583672826 |
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin's state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the labor movement, and workers have been largely complacent in the face of stagnant wages, slashed benefits and services, widening unemployment, and growing inequality. That is, until now.
Author | : John Nichols |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1568587066 |
On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests elicited extensive national media coverage, and drew more attention from the general public than any American labor struggle in decades. John Nichols's Uprising traces the roots of this struggle -- which has faced legislative disappointments, legal challenges, and dramatic electoral twists and turns -- and in the process reveals how Scott Walker rose to national prominence and went on to become a frontrunner in the Republican race for the nomination in 2016. At a time when public services are under assault from corporate privatizers and billionaire political donors, the public repudiation of Walker's efforts (and the shadowy interests like the Koch Brothers behind them) has translated into a broader challenge to corporate America, Wall Street, the far Right, and its media echo chamber.
Author | : Michael D. Yates |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1583672834 |
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin’s state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the labor movement, and workers have been largely complacent in the face of stagnant wages, slashed benefits and services, widening unemployment, and growing inequality. That is, until now. Under pressure from a union-busting governor and his supporters in the legislature, and inspired by the massive uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, workers in Wisconsin shook the nation with their colossal display of solidarity and outrage. Their struggle is still ongoing, but there are lessons to be learned from the Wisconsin revolt. This timely book brings together some of the best labor journalists and scholars in the United States, many of whom were on the ground at the time, to examine the causes and impact of events, and suggest how the labor movement might proceed in this new era of union militancy.
Author | : Matthew Kearney |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 149856898X |
The Wisconsin Uprising of 2011 was one of the largest sustained collective actions in the history of the United States. Newly-elected Governor Scott Walker introduced a shock proposal that threatened the existence of public unions and access to basic health care, then insisted on rapid passage. The protests that erupted were neither planned nor coordinated. The largest, in Madison, consolidated literally overnight into a horizontally organized leaderless and leaderful community. That community featured a high level of internal social order, complete with distribution of food and basic medical care, group assemblies for collective decision making, written rules and crowd marshaling to enforce them, and a moral community that made a profound emotional impact on its members. The resistance created a functioning commune inside the Wisconsin State Capitol Building. In contrast to what many social movement theories would predict, this round-the-clock protest grew to enormous size and lasted for weeks without direction from formal organizations. This book, written by a protest insider, argues based on immersive ethnographic observation and extensive interviewing that the movement had minimal direction from organizations or structure from political processes. Instead, it emerged interactively from collective effervescence, improvised non-hierarchical mechanisms of communication, and an escalating obligation for like-minded people to join and maintain their participation. Overall, the findings demonstrate that a large and complex collective action can occur without direction from formal organizations.
Author | : Erica Sagrans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Collective bargaining |
ISBN | : 9781934690482 |
In February of 2011, the people of Wisconsin changed the political landscape in America overnight. In response to their governor's move to strip workers of the right to organize, Wisconsinites fought back occupying their Capitol for days on end and protesting in record numbers. Provides an up-close view of the struggle, in the words of the grassroots activists, independent journalists, and Wisconsinites who led the fight. Alongside the real-time story of the Capitol occupation told by those on the inside, this collection looks at what happened, what it means, and what comes next. From publisher description.
Author | : Jason Stein |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0299293831 |
parliamentary maneuvers, a camel slipping on icy Madison streets as union firefighters rushed to assist, massive nonviolent street protests, and a weeks-long occupation that blocked the marble halls of the Capitol and made its rotunda ring. Jason Stein and Patrick Marley, award-winning journalists for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, covered the fight firsthand. They center their account on the frantic efforts of state officials meeting openly and in the Capitol's elegant backrooms as protesters demonstrated outside. Conducting new in-depth interviews with elected officials, labor leaders, cops, protestors, and other key figures, and drawing on new documents and their own years of experience as statehouse reporters, Stein and Marley have written a gripping account of the wildest sixteen months in Wisconsin politics since the era of Joe McCarthy.
Author | : Paul Gilk |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2012-12-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1620325608 |
In November 2010, Republican Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In something of a Tea Party sweep, the iconic Russ Feingold lost his seat in the U.S. Senate and the Wisconsin legislature became Republican in both chambers. In early 2011, Governor Walker announced a budget repair bill that, among other things, gutted collective bargaining rights for most public sector unions. Outraged citizens occupied the state capitol for weeks in an outpouring of opposition, the likes of which had not been seen in Wisconsin since the protests against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s. Various recall elections were held in the summer of 2011 (all in regard to the state senate), with another set of elections in June 2012; among them the governor's recall was paramount. Democrats regained control of the senate, but Scott Walker defeated Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett and kept the governor's mansion. Many Democrats were stunned by the failed recall. These essays probe that failure. Every contributor has a unique perspective, but lurking near the core of that probing are two key issues: the extent to which corporations have taken over government and whether ecological crises are revealing conventional politics as complicit in disaster.
Author | : Mari Jo Buhle |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1844678881 |
In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings—and pizzas—to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison, and 150,000 demonstrators converged on the city. In a year that has seen a revival of protest in America, here is a riveting account of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession. It Started in Wisconsin includes eyewitness reports by striking teachers, students, and others (such as Wisconsin-born musician Tom Morello), as well as essays explaining Wisconsin’s progressive legacy by acclaimed historians. The book lays bare the national corporate campaign that crafted Wisconsin’s anti-union legislation and similar laws across the country, and it conveys the infectious esprit de corps that pervaded the protests with original pictures and comics.
Author | : Mark E. Andersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Protest movements |
ISBN | : |
During the Wisconsin Uprising of spring 2011 mainstream media had many failures in their coverage of the events in Madison, Wisconsin. This project looks at the role new media played in the Wisconsin uprising by reporting events other forms of media did not. New media, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media formats, gained new readership/viewership and an expanded role during the Wisconsin uprising, informing participants about uprising events including their emotional impact on the people of Wisconsin. When Governor Scott Walker announced that he was going to eliminate collective bargaining rights for state employees, in my mind, I went back to my high school years when my father's union was busted. Growing up I saw the impacts a broken union had on our family. I wrote a blog post on February 14th, 2011 about my family's experience with union busting. That is where my journey began and was when my life was forever changed. This is a look back at the Wisconsin Uprising through my eyes and the eyes of other bloggers like myself. This look back shows that the mainstream media failed, in my opinion, to cover the Wisconsin Uprising due to a multitude of reasons such as, fear of being accused of "liberal bias," a lack of violence, and other world events that were deemed to be more important; therefore new media, which did not have to fear accusations of "liberal bias," was better equipped to cover the Wisconsin Uprising.
Author | : Susan Riseling |
Publisher | : Mavenmark Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Civil society |
ISBN | : 9781595982551 |
In 2011, recently elected Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker introduced his version of "dropping a bomb" with the Budget Repair Bill. A View from the Interior covers the thirty tense days following his announcement that would put an end to public unions in Wisconsin. One and a half million people descended upon the Capitol building in Madison, jamming its hallways and flooding its grounds to protest. Author Susan Riseling, Chief of University of Wisconsin-Madison Police, offers this compelling insider's perspective of those protests, based on hundreds of pages of actual police reports and other documents from those history-making days.