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...

Introduction -- Interdisciplinarity: on the importance of law, communication studies and anthropology in the present work -- (I)mmigrant workers and the union movement: legal and historical -- Global precarity -- Casework as an organizing tactic -- Campaigns and strategies in the United States...