[JamesLeonis]

A great book is No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey[1]. She specifically goes over history, organizing tactics, analysis about why some unions succeed vs others that don't, as well as how to transition from a bad/no union to one that is representative. Each have examples of recent strikes and efforts in the last decade.

Here's a quote that jumped out at me.

> According to Buffkin's congressional testimony, it was the [Smithfield Foods'] intent to replace blacks with Latinos with two objectives in mind: to keep the workforce divided through both instigation of racial conflict and overt segregation, and to create an undocumented immigrant workforce that the employer believed they could more easily control.

> [Key to success was] first earning legitimacy with each major constituency in the plant, and then bridging the divisions between them, creating unity and solidarity despite the extraordinary efforts by the boss to systematically pit worker against worker.

[1]: https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-po...

[minimuffins]

Just want to second this. It's a great read and McAlevy is a smart and experienced strategist and scholar. You can find her talking about her ideas in old episodes of the New York radio show Behind the News, all of which are online.