In his original CyberUnion, the author presented a bold plan for unions to develop a more significant role in the 21st century by adopting four strategic aids - futuristics, innovations, services, and traditions (F-I-S-T) - knit together by cutting-edge Info Tech resources. CyberUnions in Action...

Holding The Shop Together -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Enduring Resilience of the Law and the State in German Industrial Relations -- 2. Codetermination: Pillar of Postwar German Industrial Relations -- 3. A Quantitative Analysis of Membership Developments in...

This volume comprises thirteen fine-grained case studies of recent campaigns by worker centers and unions to organize the new "precariat" class of workers and to address the crisis facing the labor movement, each of which is based on original research and participant observation.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Shaping Myself, Shaping History -- Chapter 1. Writing and Rewriting Labor's Narrative -- Chapter 2. Supply-Chain Tourist -- or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question -- Chapter 3. Historians...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. The Labor Movement in a New Globalized Environment: An Introduction -- Part I: Cross-Border Organizing and Solidarity -- 2. Free Trade and Worker Solidarity in the North American Auto...

Power in Coalition -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Elements of Coalition Unionism -- 2. The Public Education Coalition in New South Wales -- 3. Living Wages and the Grassroots Collaborative in Chicago -- 4. The Ontario Health Coalition -- 5. Power in...

Central Labor Councils are the local arm of the labor movement responsible for coordinating collective activities among different unions in a region. Once quite powerful organizations with important political roles at local and regional levels, CLCs waned significantly during the 1940s and 50s....

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Harold Meyerson -- A Note from The Century Foundation by Richard C. Leone -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Birth of Regional Power Building -- 1. Thinking Regionally -- 2. The Regional Power-Building Model Emerges in California -- The Three...