Claire Lemlech called for a general strike 100 years ago and 15,000 people followed her into the street. "I thought it did a real disservice to the labor movement to tell the story in that way," she says. She is now helping lead this organizing in the Starbucks campaign.
Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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