In a new booklet from the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, that neatly combines historical perspective and activist insight, the author tells how and why working people have been denied their due throughout the last 500 years. In explaining the challenges unions have faced since colonial times, Kellman traces labor's uphill battle to organize--first against the propertied class and now against the corporate class. He urges a revival of the "labor amendment"--the post-Civil War vision based on the 13th Amendment ban on involuntary servitude. This is a compelling statement on the imbalance of power that enables corporations to exercise free speech, assembly and organizing rights at the expense of workers and unions.

Whether your passion is organizing unions or ending corporate clear cutting, stopping genetically engineered food or getting corporations out of schools and elections, this booklet is for you.  Kellman describes how to reframe single issues in the context of human rights and turn the Constitution into activists' political arena.  And Wuerker draws it all.