American writer on labor (born 1940)
Kim Moody
Born 1940 (age 84–85) Occupations Movement
Kim Moody (born 1940) is an American socialist activist and writer onlabor [ 1] social movement unionism , a revitalizedlabor movement of mobilized and militant rank-and-file workers, rather thanbusiness unionism , structured from the top down and compromised by coziness withcorporations .
In the early 1960s, Moody was a member of theStudents for a Democratic Society (SDS) inBaltimore ,Maryland , writing an SDS position paper on "Organizing Poor Whites" for the organization's Economic Research and Action Project.[ 2] Independent Socialist Clubs andInternational Socialists , writing articles and pamphlets on labor.[ 3]
From 1979 to 2001, Moody served on the staff ofLabor Notes Detroit , which he helped to found in 1979.
He now resides in the UK, where he is a senior research fellow at theUniversity of Hertfordshire .[ 4]
An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism (Verso, 1988)Unions and Free Trade: Solidarity vs Competition (Labor Notes, 1992)Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Verso, 1997)From Welfare to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present (New Press, 2007)U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition (Verso, 2007)In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States (Haymarket Books, 2014)On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket Books, 2017)Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900 (Haymarket Books, 2019)[ 5] Breaking the Impasse: Electoral Politics, Mass Action, and the New Socialist Movement in the United States (Haymarket Books, 2022)^ Boyle, Kevin (2021)."Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870–1900" Journal of American History .108 (1):171– 172.doi :10.1093/jahist/jaab005 .ISSN 0021-8723 . ^ " Archived fromthe original on 2010-08-09. Retrieved2010-06-05 .^ Kim Moody, Fred Eppsteiner, and Mike Flug,Toward the Working Class: An SDS Convention Position Paper (n.p.: Independent Socialist Committee, 1966); Kim Moody, "The American Working Class in Transition,"International Socialism , No. 40 (Old Series), Oct/Nov 1969; Kim Moody,Struggle in the Coal Fields (Detroit: Sun Press, 1974); Kim Moody,Don't Buy 'Buy American' (Detroit: Sun Press, 1975); Kim Moody,Battle Line: The Coal Strike of 1978 (Detroit: Sun Press, 1978). ^ The Nation ^ "Kim Moody" .Haymarket Books . Retrieved9 November 2019 .Schavione, Michael. "Moody's Account of Social Movement Unionism: An Analysis,"Critical Sociology 33 (2007): 279–309.
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