Summer Reading: Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Man Who Changed Colors and Working Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster

Two books for your summer reading. First long-time labor guru Bill Fletcher Jr’s second novel: The Man Who Changed Colors is a mystery where a shipyard worker falls to his death. Was it an accident? Cape and Islands Gazette Journalist David Gomes risks everything to find out. Then veteran union organizer Chris Townsend talks about the lessons for today’s labor activists in the just republished Working Class Giant the Life of William Z. Foster. Foster was the leader of the 1919 steel strike.


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