Paradoxes, anomalies and hypotheses -- Union density in a cross-national context -- The evolution of trade unions in the United States and Canada: the emergence of "the gap" in union density -- Social democratic Canada/free market United States -- Attitudes and values: an inverted relationship...

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 Boston police strike of 1919 -- Yellow-dog contracts and Seattle teachers, 1928-1931 -- Public sector labor law before legalized collective bargaining -- Ground-floor politics and the BSEIU in the 1930s -- The New York City TWU in the early 1940s -- Wisconsin's public sector labor laws of...