Socialist Night School: Labor Lessons from the South w/Michael Goldfield

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Amazon, Bessemer, and Alabama Exceptionalism: Labor Lessons from the South
w/Michael Goldfield, author of The Southern Key

​Nearly six thousand Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are currently voting on whether to unionize. If successful, they’ll be the first unionized Amazon workers in the United States.

​How did this effort come about? What makes Alabama such a unique backdrop for this historic effort? And what can previous efforts like Operation Dixie teach us about the challenges of labor organizing in the South?

​Join us and special guest lecturer Michael Goldfield, author of The Southern Key: Race, Class, and Radicalism  in the 1930s and 1940s as we discuss these topics and more! This event will be a comprised of a short lecture followed by small breakout sessions. Check out the readings and join us!

​Readings:

• The Alabama Amazon Union Drive Could Be the Most Important Labor Fight in the South in Decades​ (interview w/Michael Goldfield)
• ​Excerpt from “The Failure of Labor Unionism in the US South”​, Cody R. Melcher & Michael Goldfield​​