Dan Georgakas - Social Change
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Dan Georgakas has written and edited several books about mass movements
that
sought to change the nature of American society.
BOOKS:
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (co-author: Marvin Surkin).
An account of Detroit in the late l960s with a focus on black auto workers who formed DRUM (the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement) and then the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Detroit has been listed as one of the 100 best books of the century by Alexander Cockburn's Counterpuch. Expanded second edition, 1999.
Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW (co-editors: Stewart Bird and Deborah Schaffer)
First person accounts by members of the Industrial Workers of the World with an introduction by Georgakas. Based in part on the Bird/Schaffer film The Wobblies.
Encyclopedia of the American Left (co-editors: Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle) Second edition in hardback only from Oxford University Press.
This enlarged edition contains entries by over 300 scholars covering radical activity in America from the time of the American Revolution through the 1980s. Numerous contributions by Georgakas. Paperback of first edition available from University of Illinois Press.
The Immigrant Left in the United States (co-editor Paul Buhle)
The history of the left-wing of a dozen immigrant groups in America are offered with English and non-English bibliography. This is the first scholarly review of such movments among Poles, Ukranians, Haitians, and Greeks. New non-English sources are used for other groups reviewed such as Mexicans, Italians, and Jews. Greek entry by Georgakas.