The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Highlight

a finely honed and well-tested system in which power is built through workplace organizing based on collective self-interest; and then that power is nurtured and scaled up and protected by a parallel system of political organizing; and all of it is sustained by a nonstop program of internal education and training; and the entire system is a way to teach people what democracy is and show them its power and then make them the messengers of its continuation.