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Out of the Lab, Into the Street: An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California

Out of the Lab, Into the Street: An Oral History of the 2022 UAW Strike at the University of California

Paperback

Series: Working Class History

General EducationRegional: WestSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $25.95

ISBN13: 9798887441573
Publisher: PM Press
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Out of the Lab, Into the Streets tells the story of how academic workers built the largest strike in the history of American higher education and set a new standard of militancy in one of the fastest growing sectors of the labor movement.


On November 14, 2022, academic workers of the University of California began a strike that brought workers out of the lab and into the streets for six weeks to fight for more equitable working conditions. The strike was a point of arrival and a process at the same time. It was the hard-fought achievement of a short- and long-term history of union organizing and a learning practice for workers across campuses, disciplines, job classifications, political affiliations, and identities. This book documents the everyday and on-the-ground making of union organizing and power building and demonstrates for organizers everywhere the lessons about the effectiveness of

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