The package king -- Uprising in New York -- The rise of the "Quiet Giant" -- UPSurge at the tightest ship -- Air war: taking on FedEx -- Democracy comes to the Teamsters -- A war on every front -- The campaign to destroy OSHA -- Last, best, and final offer? -- Part-time America won't work -- The...

"The labor movement has been under attack for decades; by understanding the nature of the right-wing attack, activists and scholars can analyze ways to build a working-class movement in the United States."

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...

"The book concerns working hours - in the past and in the present, in America and in Britain. The focus is on the relation between hours of work and outcomes such as production and health. Proportional increases in hours of work are shown to result in smaller proportional increases in production...