Panel Discussion on “Square Up: Building Labor’s Power in the Second Gilded Age” — Jan 29
International Publishers and People's World are hosting a panel discussion featuring four authors from the recently published essay collection, Square Up: Building Labor’s Power in the Second Gilded Age on Thursday, January 29 at 8pm. Panelists labor author Eric Blanc, labor activists and writer Bill Fletcher, Jr., Maine AFL-CIO President Cynthia Phinney and union activist Roberta Wood will address urgent questions confronting the labor movement today. The panel will be streamed on the People's World YouTube Channel.
In this collection of sixteen essays, union leaders, organizers, activists, scholars, and rank-and-file workers address a central question of our time: How do we build Labor’s Power in the Second Gilded Age? Square Up includes essays by Bill Fletcher Jr., Stewart Acuff, Cynthia Phinney, Eric Blanc, and Roberta Wood, as well as Maine labor activist and author Peter Kellman, Daniel Delgado and Ellen von zur Muehlen, Erica Meade, Jeremy Hope, the Southern Workers Assembly, C.A.U.S.E., the CPUSA Labor Commission, Gene Lantz, Sam Wallman, and Jane Ann Morris. Introduction by Lorri Nandrea and Tony Pecinovsky. Foreword by journalist and photographer David Bacon.