1. CLASS AND CLASS STRUGGLE IN AMERICA (1860-2016)

2. The Transformation of US Capitalism
-textiles, cotton
-manufacturing
-building a continental economy
-railroads, early industry,
-industrialization, finance
-mass production/consumption
-financialization/globalization/deindustrialization
-from manufacturing to service

3. Changing Work -agriculture, mining, factory system
-rise of division of labor, mass production
-Fordism
-mass production
-out sourcing, plant closings, deindustrialization
-service economy

4. Labor Mobilization -craft unions -Lowell women
-miners, railroad workers
-National Labor Union, Knights of Labor,
-8 hour day movement (European socialists and anarchists)
-AFL
-IWW
-CIO

5. Labor Mobilization 2 AFL-CIO
-assault on organized labor (PATCO as metaphor)
AFL-CIO shifts to the left: UPS/Teamster strike
Union density declines dramatically

6. Rise of the New Class Society
-Dramatic and continuing shift in income and wealth from the middle to the top
-shift from a double diamond distribution of wealth and power to a triangular model
-metaphor of 1% versus 99%
-rise of the “precariat” (from Marx’s reserve army to Bourdieu to Guy Stanley)

7. Indiana -Check essays by Targ on the political economy of Indiana
-Note the United Way ALICE study which found that 37% of Hoosier families live below the UW estimate of earnings required for a family of four to achieve a living wage and close to 20% of such families live below the poverty line

8. Findings from Quigley Study
-Reports of marginalized workers: fast food, food service, housekeeping, home care
-shifts from higher paying manufacturing jobs to low paid service jobs
-characteristics of “new working class” jobs: no unions; less than 40 hour work weeks; lack of predictability of work schedules; low wages; no benefits; no retirement; no health and safety at the workplace; no voice; no respect

9. Findings from Quigley Study 2
-new working class multi-racial; high percentage of women; young AND old; careers of low income earnings
-difficulties in union organizing: limited workers common spaces; no traditional unions; workers to organize divided by race and gender; employers largest multinational corporations in the world; huge corporations control or can influence the political processes (ie Indianapolis government)

10. Findings from Quigley Study 3
-new union organizing: SEIU, UNITE-Here largest growing organizing in the labor movement
-economic marginalization potentially brings together public sector, home care, health care, hotels, teachers, adjuncts, taxi drivers
-every effort of economic ruling class is designed to weaken labor, increase barriers to organizing, shift more wealth created by workers to capital

11. Findings from Quigley 4
-new working class requires organizing techniques that are different from the era of the AFL and CIO (more similar to IWW?)
-personal contacts, identifying worker leaders, building grassroots forms of organization, using all forms of advangage-from elections to demonstrations to connecting with other activists
-hiring young committed grassroots activists with patience, compassion

12. Findings from Quigley 5
-new working class organizing model parallels and is connected to Fight for $15; Black Lives Matter; Single Payer Healthcare, Teachers unions such as CTU; anti-police violence; immigrant rights campaigns