Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Community-Based, "Catch-All" Organizing on New York's Lower East Side -- 2. Getting beyond Racial, Ethnic, Religious, and Skill-Based Divisions -- 3. "Like a Scab over an Infected Sore":...

Free labor -- From Reconstruction to Jim Crow, 1877-1895 -- Blacks and labor in the progressive era, 1900-1920 -- From progressivism to the New Deal, 1920-1935 -- The New Deal and World War -- The civil rights era, 1950-1965 -- The affirmative action dilemma, 1965-present

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...

The dilemma of the narrow door -- Millions go knocking -- Employers close the door -- Signing up in the shipyard -- Out of the Southern frying pan, into the global fire -- Resistance in retail: organizing Woodward & Lothrop -- 9 to 5: framing a new doorway