Michael A. Acree

“working at reduced pay, with marginal perks and nonexistent health coverage.”
― Philip Dray, There is Power in a Union

“a strike in the era of globalization must be vigorously supported by allies near and far and exceptionally well managed.”
― Philip Dray, There is Power in a Union

“These companies reap huge profits, a few local elite business owners benefit from the improved infrastructure, and everyone else suffers because funds are diverted from health services, education, and other public sectors to pay interest on the loans. The debts are so large they can’t be repaid. The lower-income countries default on their loans. This process is sometimes referred to as debt-trap diplomacy.”
― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“Work stoppages in America declined from 3,111 in 1977 to only 385 by 1995, even as real wages lost 15 percent of their value—data that, as if on a diagnostic chart, revealed an ailing U.S. labor movement.96”
― Philip Dray, There is Power in a Union