"As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and American workers and labor unions is significant. National boundaries and the laws of governments that regulate social relations between laborers...

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...