Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher is an historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on labor and social movements.

Notable works

His notable literary works include Cornwall in Pictures: A Visual reminiscence, 1868-1941,^[1] which was favourably reviewed by the New York Times;^[2] and Global Village or Global Pillage?, written with Tim Costello.^[3]

His notable documentary works include Global Village or Global Pillage? which received the Gold Special Jury Award at The Houston International Film Festival, and Best Documentary Award at the FirstGlance 5 Philadelphia Film and Video Festival, and a 2001 Emmy Award Nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Target Audience Program.

Career

Brecher served as historian for the Naugatuck Valley Project,^[4] a community coalition formed in 1986 to confront plant closings and deindustrialization. From 1989 to 2001 he served as Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio.^[5] From 1991-1995, he was producer, writer, and host of Connecticut Public Radio's Remembering Connecticut.^[6][7]

In 1998, Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) hired Brecher to work for him on globalization issues. Together with Sanders staff member Brendan Smith, they developed the Global Sustainable Development Resolution^[8] which provided a comprehensive program for transforming the global economy based on the programs of a wide range of public interest organizations and policy analysts. Brecher resigned from Rep. Sanders' staff when Sanders voted to support a resolution authorizing air strikes against Serbia.^[9]

Filmography

• The Roots of Roe (1994)^[10]
• Schools in Black and White (1991)^[11]
• Rust Valley^[12]
• The Amistad Revolt (1995)
• Electronic Road Film
• Brass City Music (1988)
• Dance On The Wind (2006)
• Between Boston and New York (1992)
• As We Tell Our Stories (1994)
• Puerto Rican Passages (1995)
• African Americans in Connecticut: The Colonial Era To The Civil War (1999)
• African Americans in Connecticut: Civil War to Civil RightsWar (2001)^[13]

Published works

• Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival, (Boulder, CO: Paradigm publishers, 2015). ISBN 9781612058207
• Strike! Revised: Expanded, and updated edition (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2014) ISBN 9780846703648
• Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action (Boulder, CO: Paradigm publishers, 2012) ISBN 9781612050966
• Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011) ISBN 9780252036125
• In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (Edited with Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith) (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005) ISBN 9780805079692
• We Are the Roots: The Organizational Culture of a Home Care Cooperative (with Ruth Glasser), (Davis CA: University of California Center for Cooperatives, 2002)
• Cornwall in Pictures: A Visual Reminiscence 1868-1941 (Cornwall, CT: Cornwall Historical Society, 2001) ISBN 9781931597005
• Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity (with Tim Costello and Brendan Smith) (Cambridge. South End Press, 2000) ISBN 9780896086227
• Strike!: Revised and Updated Edition (Boston. South End Press (South End Press Classics Series, 1997)
• History from Below: How to Uncover and Tell the Story of Your Community, Association, or Union (Revised Edition) (West Cornwall, CT: Commonwork/Advocate Press, 1996)
• Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up (with Tim Costello) (Boston. South End Press, 1994)
• Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order (ed, with John Brown Childs and Jill Cutler) (Boston. South End Press, 1993) ISBN 9780896084612
• Global Village vs. Global Pillage: A One-World Strategy for Labor (with Tim Costello) (Washington, D.C. International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, 1991) ISBN 978-1-880103-02-9
• Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Alliance of Labor and Community (ed., with Tim Costello) (New York. Monthly Review Press, 1990)
• History from Below: How to Uncover and Tell the Story of Your Community, Association, or Union New Haven. (Commonwork 1986)
• Brass Valley: The Story of Working People's Lives and Struggles in an American Industrial Region (ed., with Jerry Lombardi and Jan Stackhouse) (Philadelphia. Temple University Press, 1982) ISBN 9780877222729
• Common Sense for Hard Times (Second Edition) (Washington, D.C./New York. Institute for Policy Studies/Two Continents Publishing Group, 1976 Boston/New York. South End Press/Two Continents Publishing Group, 1977) ISBN 9780896081093
• Common Sense for Hard Times (Montreal. Black Rose Press, 1980)
• La lotta quotidiane in tempi difficili (Torino. Rosenberg & Sellier, 1979)
• Root & Branch: The Rise of the Workers’ Movements (ed., with others) (Greenwich, Conn. Fawcett, 1975)
• Le Nouveau Mouvement Ouvrier Americain (ed., with others) (Paris. Spartacus, 1978)
• Strike! (San Francisco. Straight Arrow Books, 1972)
• Strike! (second edition) (Greenwich, Conn. Fawcett, 1974)
• Strike! (third edition) (Boston. South End Press, 1977)
• Streiks und Arbeiterrevolten (Frankfurt am Main. Fischer Verlag, 1975)
• Sciopero! (Milano. La Salamandra, 1976)
• Strike! (Japanese Edition) (Tokyo. Shobun-sha, 1980)
• Climate Insurgency: A Strategy For Survival (New York. Paradigm Publishers, 2015)

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