Why organize? -- Labor revival: what would it take? -- The New Deal system: employer offensive, labor response -- Gender styles and union issues -- New tactics, community, and color -- Neoliberal globalization -- Code of conduct and living wage campaigns -- A new upsurge?

An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce. Repeated cross-sectional analyses suggest that a...