Marc Kagan is a former transit worker, a life-long union and shopfloor activist, and sometime union officer. He has taught American, NYC, and Labor History, and is co-author of Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose (Oxford, 2022).

"Take Back the Power is a thorough, 452-page case study in class struggle and transformational union politics. Kagan chronicles the decades-long fight by New York transit workers and their union to win respect, economic justice, and power on the job[...]This book should be read and studied. It’s certainly a tale worth telling."- Bill Breihan, in: Against the Current

Marc Kagan is a former transit worker, a life-long union and shopfloor activist, and sometime union officer. He has taught American, NYC, and Labor History, and is co-author of Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose (Oxford, 2022).

"Take Back the Power is a thorough, 452-page case study in class struggle and transformational union politics. Kagan chronicles the decades-long fight by New York transit workers and their union to win respect, economic justice, and power on the job[...]This book should be read and studied. It’s certainly a tale worth telling."- Bill Breihan, in: Against the Current

Marc Kagan is a former transit worker, a life-long union and shopfloor activist, and sometime union officer. He has taught American, NYC, and Labor History, and is co-author of Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose (Oxford, 2022).

"Take Back the Power is a thorough, 452-page case study in class struggle and transformational union politics. Kagan chronicles the decades-long fight by New York transit workers and their union to win respect, economic justice, and power on the job[...]This book should be read and studied. It’s certainly a tale worth telling."- Bill Breihan, in: Against the Current