Hated Work, Loved Labor

Don’t miss author Les Leopold discussing his new book The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzochi at the National Labor College tonight. “Tony Mazzocchi hated work. Don’t get me wrong. He was the hardest working labor leader I’ve ever met,” says Labor Party national organizer and DC Labor Filmfest Co-Chair Mark Dudzic in his review of Leopold’s book. “The work he hated was the coerced, soul-numbing labor performed by untold millions in factories, offices and other hierarchical workplaces…Les Leopold captures this sensibility and places it in a historical context in an important new biography on Mazzocchi’s life.” Through decades of labor and social activism “Mazzocchi helped build one of the most dynamic and democratic local unions in the country, led the fight to liberate the OCAW from CIA-dominated business unionists, and birthed a powerful grassroots movement that established the legal right to a safe workplace. He linked that movement with the environmental movement, and was the key catalyst in the founding of the Labor Party, which he led until his death in 2002.”