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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)

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Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the '60s and '70s.

About the Author


*Marvin Surkin, PhD, Political Science, New York University, New York, NY is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He conducts workshops on Workplace and Community Organizing, Urban Political Economy, and Urban Renewal in the U.S.A. and its Significance for Development in the Third World, and Comparative Urban Architecture.

Surkin worked at the center of League of Revolutionary Black workers in Detroit.

*Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He co-edited Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW, Encyclopedia of the American Left, and The Immigrant Left in the United States. Dan Georgakas is a longtime editor of Cineaste magazine and has contributed to numerous film anthologies and other film journals. Dan Georgakas founded the Greek American Committee of the Modern Greek Studies Association and has contributed to numerous ethnic journals and newspapers. His memoir is My Detroit, Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781608462216
ISBN-10: 1608462218
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication Date: August 21st, 2012
Pages: 250
Language: English