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Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Responsible Socialism of Adolph Germer

The Responsible Socialism of Adolph Germer

Adolph Germer was a mineworker, socialist, and lifelong labor organizer who believed that organizing strategy must be both ambitious and practical. He adopted this orientation because he knew first hand both how difficult it was to win and how devastating it could be for workers when they lost.

We Can’t Foreclose Grubbing Analysis

We Can’t Foreclose Grubbing Analysis

In logistics, we can still copy much of the 1930’s targeted organizing strategies, but we need a more sophisticated understanding of distributional relations and technologies. The death of chokepoint analysis has been greatly exaggerated.