Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Marvin Surkin (Author) "Detroit is the fifth-largest city in the United States, the major industrial center of the nation's heartland, the headquarters of the automobile industry, which directly..." (more)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: South End Press; Revised edition (July 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896085716
• ISBN-13: 978-0896085718
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #206,321 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An example for trade unionists and anti-racists., January 28, 1999

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We often here about the 1960s as a time of radicalization for students and mystical urban heroes. Rarely is the working-class and trade union struggle ever revealed. Partly that is because working-class struggle was not at the heart of the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement. But Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tells a different story; one of a core of revolutionaries in the industrial heart of America within a union with a radical past. These black revolutionaries take on the racism of the bosses, as well as the racism of the union beauracracy, in a daring and valliant attempt to bring about real social change. Some lessons for activists, trade unionists, and socialists today are included by the authors. Questions of organizing white workers; the need for a national party; wildcat strikes to take on both the company and the union beauracracy; and the need to have an international perspective. All of theses lessons are brought forth from the struggles of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and all of the Revolutionary Union Movements in the Detroit area. A must read for activists today.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Somebody please reprint this book!!, August 14, 1997

By	[e-mail] (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)

This is simply the best book written on the radicalization of the Black (and white/arab/latino) industrial working class in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It is also rich in lessons for radical unionists and socialists today. With all the academic presses churning out tome after tome on "race relations" why doesn't one of them pick up this fascinating book

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pages missing, January 9, 2007

By	Moni McIntyre (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The content of the book is fine. The production of the book is poor. My first copy came with 15 pages missing. The second copy came with 15 different pages missing. The publisher cannot promise a complete book for some time, so I would not suggest that anyone order it any time soon.