Which Side Are You On? (book)

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Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back
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Author Thomas Geoghegan
Country United States
Language English
GenreLabor studies
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
August 1, 1991
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages352
ISBN 978-0374289195

Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be For Labor When It's Flat on Its Back is a 1991 book by Thomas Geoghegan. It was reissued by The New Press in 2004. [1] It chronicles Geoghegan's work with labor unions in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly his efforts to help steel workers at South Deering's Wisconsin Steel mill. [2]

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Reception

Which Side Are You On? was nominated for the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award. [3] It earned positive reviews. [4] [5] [6] The New York Times referred to it as a "quirky, brilliant career memoir." [7]

Legacy

Its reputation has grown over the years. Hendrik Hertzberg, in a 2009 New Yorker article, called it "one of the finest nonfiction books by a contemporary author...a delightful book about the labor movement." [8] Alex Kotlowitz, in the Chicago Tribune , wrote that it was a "smart, irreverent, personal account of organized labor's woes, from a union sympathizer." [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Which Side Are You On?". The New Press.
  2. ↑ https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2334&context=mlr [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. ↑ "National Book Critics Circle: awards". bookcritics.org.
  4. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Which Side Are You On? by Thomas Geoghegan, Author, Thomas Georgehegan, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-28919-5". PublishersWeekly.com.
  5. ↑ "For Love of Labor : WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back By Thomas Geoghegan ; (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $19.95; 287 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. August 25, 1991.
  6. ↑ https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2059&context=blr [ bare URL PDF ]
  7. ↑ Berman, Paul (August 11, 1991). "A Union Man From Harvard". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com.
  8. ↑ Hertzberg, Hendrik (January 6, 2009). "Chicago's Chance…". The New Yorker– via www.newyorker.com.
  9. ↑ Real, Alex Kotlowitz Alex Kotlowitz is the author of "There Are No Children Here," "The Other Side of the River" and, due out in July, "Never a City So (25 April 2004). "RECOMMENDED READING". chicagotribune.com.{{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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