num_pages: 96
description: It is we who push the papers, put the paychecks in the mail;        It is we who type the letters, mind the office without fail.        And until we get a contract, it is we who'll shut down Yale, For the union        makes us strong.      (To the tune of "John Brown's Body")      "Must reading for anyone who wants to learn what a revitalized labor        movement would look like." -- Labor Notes      "A textbook on solidarity unionism." -- Staughton Lynd      "One of the very best books on labor in the 1970s and 80s."        -- Dana Frank, University of California at Santa Cruz      "There are very few case studies in recent labor history as readable        and provocative as this one." -- Karen Sawislak, Stanford University      On Strike for Respect is a lively account of the 1984-85 strike        by clerical and technical workers at Yale University. Members of Local        34, with a strong female majority, mobilized themselves and the public,        breathing new life into the labor movement as they fought for and won        substantial gains. A short update on current conditions concludes this        volume. 
language: English
title: On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, 1984-85
publisher: University of Illinois Press