"Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he asserts...

Responsibilities of the labor historian -- The future of the labor movement in historical perspective -- Labor's institutional sources of expansion and contraction -- Section 8a(2) and the origins of the Wagner act -- World War I and industrial democracy; or, why we have no works councils in...

The impact of an organized labor movement in Central America and Panama is explored through a historical lens, illustrating how economically exploited countries campaigned for personal financial interests

The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? In analyzing how an entirely new...