Table of Contents:
  • Changing to organize: a national assessment of union strategies / Kate Bronfenbrenner and Robert Hickey
  • Union democracy and successful campaigns: the dynamics of staff authority and worker participation in an organizing union / Teresa Sharpe
  • Workers against unions: union organizing and anti-union countermobilizations / Robert A. Penney
  • Overcoming legacies of business unionism: why grassroots organizing tactics succeed / Steven H. Lopez
  • "Justice for janitors," not "compensation for custodians": the political context and organizing in San Jose and Sacramento / Preston Rudy
  • Against the tide: projects and pathways of the new generation of union leaders, 1984-2001 / Marshall Ganz ... [et al.]
  • Sticking it out or packing it in? organizer retention in the new labor movement / Daisy Rooks
  • "Outsiders" inside the labor movement: an examination of youth involvement in the 1996 Union Summer program / Leslie Bunnage and Judith Stepan-Norris
  • Unionism in California and the United States: using representation elections to evaluate its impact on business establishments / John Dinardo and David S. Lee.