Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Revival of the American Labor Movement: issues, problems, prospects / Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz, and Richard W. Hurd.
  • Building social movement unionism: the transformation of the American labor movement / Lowell Turner and Richard W. Hurd.
  • Organize for what? : the resurgence of labor as a citizenship movement / Paul Johnston.
  • Living with flexibility / Charles Heckscher.
  • Lost ways of unionism: historical perspectives on reinventing the labor movement / Dorothy Sue Cobble.
  • Organizing immigrant workers: case studies from Southern California / Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong.
  • Structural change in the AFL-CIO: a regional study of Union Cities' impact / Jill Kriesky.
  • Confronting the dilemmas of organizing: obstacles and innovations at the AFL-CIO organizing institute / Amy Foerster.
  • Overcoming obstacles to transformation: challenges on the way to a new unionism / Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Richard W. Hurd.
  • The evolution of strategic and coordinated bargaining campaigns in the 1990s: the steelworkers' experience / Kate Bronfenbrenner and Tom Juravich.
  • Union mergers and union revival: are we asking too much or too little? / Gary Chaison.
  • Building the high road in metro areas: sectoral training and employment projects / Eric Parker and Joel Rogers.
  • Organized labor versus globalization: NAFTA, Fast Track, and PNTR with China / James Shoch.
  • Free trade, fair trade, and the battle for labor rights / Lance Compa.
  • Afterword: whither the American labor movement / Harry C. Katz.