Our Community at Winchester - by Joan Cavanagh (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Our Community at Winchester is based on an exhibit produced by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association in 2013 about workers and the community they created at the Winchester Repeating Arms plant in New Haven, CT, throughout the 20th century.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Our Community at Winchester: The City and its Workers at New Haven's Gun Factory</em> is based on an exhibit produced by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association in 2013 about workers and the community they created at the Winchester Repeating Arms plant in New Haven, Connecticut, throughout the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Material has been added to the book based on new research. Some of the original information has been revised and/or expanded upon for clarity.</p><p>The book traces the workers' long struggle to form a union as they were repeatedly met by powerful management intransigence and resistance. It follows the even greater challenges they faced as the company tried to break strikes, downsized, moved key operations out of New Haven, and repeatedly threatened to close if union members did not offer concessions. It examines the relationship between the City of New Haven and the changing corporate entities that operated the plant as loans and agreements based on guaranteed levels of employment repeatedly had to be amended or abrogated. Finally, it looks at the new "face of New Haven" in the 21<sup>st</sup> century as exemplified by Winchester Lofts and the companies now occupying Science Park where the factory buildings once stood. The book incorporates 18 interviews with former Winchester employees or their family members that reveal the mixed emotions that many had about their workplace.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The plight of the Winchester gun factory and the community of workers whose lives centered around it has been one of New Haven's great untold stories-until now. In <em>Our Community at Winchester</em>, the Greater New Haven Labor History Association has brought that story to life with all its nuances, contradictions, struggles, and humanity. The book falls within the true tradition of telling history from below; it will guide our understanding of our city's heritage and its continuing challenges for generations to come." </p><p><strong>PAUL BASS </strong>is the editor of the <em>New Haven Independent </em>and co-author of <em>Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, & The Redemption of a Killer.</em></p><p>"Based on eight years of gathering oral history interviews, documents, and images by Winchester retirees and members of the neighboring community, <em>Our Community at Winchester </em>represents a high point in the involvement of workers and community members in uncovering and telling their own history. The interviews bring to life the intimate experiences and feelings of those who made up the Winchester workforce. The book combines scholarly background and deep community connection. It shows that 'history from below' has indeed come of age." </p><p><strong>JEREMY BRECHER</strong> is author of fifteen books on labor and social movements and of <em>History from Below: How to Uncover and Tell the Story of Your Community, Association, or Union</em>. He served as Humanities Scholar in Residence at Connecticut Public Radio and Television and is a co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. www.jeremybrecher.org</p><p>"This is an important book that retrieves a lost history of workplace struggle in the Elm City. Cavanagh is to be commended for an accessible, deeply researched study. In today's polarized and increasingly unequal America, we need to hear the voices of the past that demanded a living wage and a sense of dignity." </p><p><strong>TROY RONDINONE </strong>is professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University, in New Haven, Connecticut, and the author of <em>Nightmare Factories: the Asylum in the American Imagination</em>.</p><p>"Joan Cavanagh's book stands apart from the typical industrial/corporate history that glorifies the millionaire owners, glosses over controversy, and ignores the workforce. Winchester's rank-and-filers live and breathe between these pages. They define what we mean when we sing "Solidarity Forever." </p><p><strong>STEVE THORNTON </strong>is the author of <em>A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies (IWW) in Connecticut </em>and <em>Wicked Hartford.</em></p><br>
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