Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century

Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

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Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

by Derrick Palmer
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"Meet Derrick Palmer. Why? Because you need to. In this, his first book, he goes after some of the most important and hardest-to-get right issues of the day--race and class, capitalism and dignity, the value of human work. You know. The small stuff . . . Derrick not only tells his story, but tells others how to tell their stories. I am excited to be publishing this book and hope that you're just as excited to read it." --Questlove

From the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, a definitive how-to guide to workplace organizing told through a David vs. Goliath chronicle for the ages.

On April 1, 2022, the Amazon warehouse known as JFK8, in Staten Island, notched an improbable victory when its workers voted to become the company's first unionized facility. Miraculously, a completely self-taught and worker-led union had defeated one of the most powerful corporations on the planet. In the aftermath, two of the founders of the Amazon Labor Union, Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls, began traveling across the country to help workers at Amazon and other corporations form their own unions. Unsurprisingly, nearly everyone they met had the same question: How did they do it?

In Handbook for the Revolution, Derrick Palmer, who continues to work at JFK8, provides the answer in the form of a how-to guide to organizing in today's workplace while providing gripping, never before-told anecdotes from the ALU's fight and its plans for the future. Practical, philosophical, and full of personality, Palmer's manual-cum-manifesto is an accessible step-by-step playbook for the often contentious and complex process of unionization, and a powerful call for equality--and greater understanding--through worker solidarity.

Full of hard-won lessons and personal experience, and written in the context of mass consolidation, fluctuating labor laws, and an ever widening wealth gap, Handbook for the Revolution is an invaluable resource for the modern labor movement, a thrilling chronicle of persistence, and an inspiring push for change in the workplace--and beyond.
ISBN9780374613716
Author Derrick Palmer
PublisherAuwa
GenreNews & politics, Education, and Business
FormatHardcover
PublishedMay 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

By Derrick Palmer

About Derrick Palmer

Derrick Palmer is the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, which in 2022 successfully unionized an Amazon warehouse for the first time in the company's history. In 2022, he and union cofounder Christian Smalls were honored with placement on Time's 100 Most Influential People list and as one of the Dynamic Duos on Ebony's Power 100 list. He continues to work at the Amazon JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, where he lives.

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