Back to the Roots: Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture

is a fundamental confusion in the contemporary usage of the term ‘‘social movement unionism’’ as Scipes maintains, or that anything would be gained by largely jettisoning the use of the term today. Scipes’s passion for supporting workers’ movements and labor in countries far afield from his home in the United States permeates the book. It is truly a labor of love, and the authentic product of decades of scholarship and activism related to international solidarity. His anecdotes, many of them entertaining, are sprinkled throughout the introductory chapters, endnotes, and reflections. They are evidence of the breadth of personal experience that informs his writing. There are limitations to the format of this book and his decision to keep many of his chapters written in the 1980s and 1990s as is, such as the tendency toward repetition; and while his study of the KMU is very interesting, it is also a partial one (in both senses). Yet there is an interesting history to be found here on both the recent evolution of labor internationalism and its lessons for how to create better unions in our communities and in concert with others across the world.